Really?

Rating: 6/10 (8 January 2016)

I didn't know the story before i watched it, so i only read a simple page on Wikipedia to have just few informations about it. The deal is HUGE and i was impatient to see it for the story i read. I was also curious cos i read, on a blog, that Leonardo Di Caprio was running for the Oscar title with Eddie Redmayne. I loved The Revenant, so i wanted to have an opinion on both movies.
Big disappointment. Redmayne, as we last saw him in (Jupiter apart) The Theory of Everything, was another actor. It gave me the chills at the beginning, i didn't know how to react to an original story and issue like this one and i started it with the idea "ok, let's see how i react". Hooper could have done so much more for such a delicate issue, he did everything not to do it. OK, the only positive sides i found were the landscapes (amazing, it was really like staring at a paint) and the acting of Alicia Vikander, who i barely known and was a pleasant discover. But the rest, come on. A movie this important should have taken 2.30/3 hours to enlarge the main idea and to well understand the sense. Einar/Lilli (Redmayne) gave me nothing, i liked the first "creepy" smiles and the face-expressions the first 5 times, then, mostly annoying or really creepy, they made fly away the magical that could have communicated if only remained 5. Same moves, same looks, same frames over and over. OK, Hooper maybe wanted us to know this inner passage Einar made with himself, but after a while, boring and meaningless. The main point was the psychological journey he/she did, and the relationship with Gerda, but for like an hour it looked to me like i re-winded the movie from the beginning, stuck. The end wasn't the central deal, but they spent barely 20 minutes on the operations, on how she felt and the last scenes let me like "ok, and now? Finished already? what just happened?". 6/10 just for Gerda/Alicia and for the amazing set, nothing more. Not gonna re-watch it and i hope Redmayne's gonna leave the place for Leo, cos this year, he doesn't really deserve it.
(Sorry in advance for my English)