Overly complicated movie

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2007)

Well, I just saw this movie, and I didn't like it.I don't understand the idea of someone being stupid just because he didn't like this movie, that you need "great" skills and mind to understand it. Anyway, MY reasons for not liking this movie are: 1. Extremely complicated for no reason. And I don't mean complicated as in you need to think a lot to understand the plot. I mean in the sense the story had too many distractive elements that didn't add up nothing to the plot, only confused me. It was very pretty to watch, all the colors and FXs, but at some points I didn't know what in the friggin hell was going on. Just like in "requiem for a dream", which I didn't like either (for different reasons though). I DID understand the plot at the end (my vision, at least), and that only reassured my thought that this is one big MTV's music video: great visuals, but with a very simple story that run too long for almost 2 hours. 2. The music. Don't get me wrong, the music was beautiful. But it played almost ALL the time. Again, it seems this director wanted to make a 2 hours music video. It felt as if he couldn't make scenes strong enough, as if images couldn't speak for themselves without background music all the time. That's a flaw, in my opinion. All in all.. if you enjoyed "requiem for a dream", I'm SURE you'll enjoy this movie.