8.5 but I'll round up for Bong

Rating: 9/10 (14 February 2020)

I think people are too quick to dish out 10s and on the flip side of that a bit too harsh to give anything less than a 7 just to its popularity. This film isnt a ground breaking once in a lifetime masterpiece but it is beautifully shot, acted and written. With any film, I think you must give some room to believe the unbelievable. It's a movie. It's meant to entertain, to move, to inspire, to question. People dont get what the purpose of this movie was I dont think. For me, personally, it was meant to leave us torn. In a place where no real sides were taken, so that we question it constantly, never really reaching a definitive stance. The characters are not ones to necessarily sympathize with or hate so clearly but rather there to open our eyes and really think about how incredibly ruined and beautiful this world can be, simultaneously.
It was deserving of the oscar over its competition and it is deserving of your full attention, as a remarkably well crafted piece of cinema by a very talented director/writer.