A good movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it seemed to have a solid reputation (it was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award among another things), I was quite eager to check it out. Well, it turned out to be a rather complex movie, that's for sure. Basically, in my opinion, during almost 3 hours of running time, they kept adding layers upon layers of meaning and I guess how much you will enjoy this movie will depend on how many layers you manage to uncover. The opening scene was a perfect example. Indeed, you get to see two characters in bed, obviously they just had sex. At some point, this woman starts to tell the story of young girl sneaking in the house of a boy at her school she has a crush on. The whole scene was quite beautiful as it was sunrise so it was a little bit dark. Anyway, you don't know who was this couple (at least, I didn't) and, at the same time, you have to focus on the story this woman is telling to her lover (and to the viewers as well). Eventually, there was quite lot of dialogues, fairly often mixed up with other stories and plays at the same time and you have to follow all this but, eventually, it was very rare that the characters actually said what they were thinking or feeling. However, there is a fair chance they didn't even know it themselves. It was like the play they were working on, instead of going for something straightforward, they mixed up several languages, even signs language as well which might seemed rather foolish but I liked that this guy took some bold artistical challenges. Still, even though there is something quite mesmerizing about sign language especially how it was done in this movie, I find it hard to figure out how you would manage to make it work with a theater audience though. Anyway, to conclude, even if I probably didn't grasp half of the complex material displayed in this movie, I still liked it and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

7/10