Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (29 March 2020)

I find it somewhat odd that some people have interpreted this film as anticapitalist. It shines a very narrow light on poverty but it is all conveyed in a very surreal scenario which makes it quite difficult to emotionally engage with the situations that transpire. However, that's not the only reason.
The main characters are not particularly likeable, which I'm sure defenders of the film would describe them as morally grey, given the prevailing cultural obsession with the moral ambiguity.
It's this morally ambiguous narrative that intends to blur the line of what is good and bad. Nevertheless, this blurring as well as the general surrealness didn't compel me to emotionally engage with the film's story as much as I would've liked. As a result, I found that it really lacks something. It feels like it has rattled out of someone's head, unedited.