Joyless and Surface Level

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2019)

This one had absolutely no emotion and no heart. This film makes one hope for the childlike wonder and sentimentality of Stanley Kubrick. And I think it's an apt comparison. While Kubrick was grand emotion filmed from a distance, this film is sterile and uninteresting drama filmed in close-up. Things happen in the movie with absolutely no greater purpose beyond how they immediately affect the main character. Not in any emotional capacity, mind you, just on the surface.
To put it short, this film has no meaning, which would be forgiven if it was at all enjoyable to sit through. It is aesthetically empty.