Don't adjust your TV sets, when you see a blank screen

Rating: 4/10 (18 March 2020)

This is not a new story. One would have come across reports in the media of similar incidents in real life. However, if you are one who believes a movie is a medium that provides a unique visual experience, you would be disappointed.
For almost 50% of the duration of the movie, you wouldn't miss a thing even if you remained seated with your eyes shut because everything is dark. For some uncanny reason, such movies win critical acclaim but fail to entertain normal movie lovers. Only critics can see the emperor's new clothes, may be.
This movie is more of a sound track. Why anyone should have attempted to make a 'blank-screen movie' may remain a mystery that only a Hercule Poirot could solve.
Of course the pretentious critic would say that it represented the dark nature of the theme. I would ask such people to watch a John Alton classic to know how one can create beauty out of darkness and shadows
It may have been a clever way out for a lazy director who wanted to save time taken for adjusting the light for each shot. A smart way would have been to reduce the run time because the film moves at a painful pace from the beginning. An average director could have wound it up in less than 90 minutes.
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