An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but, since it was Todd Haynes’s directorial debut, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, for his first movie, Haynes didn’t make it easy for himself or for the viewers, that’s for sure. Indeed, instead of one story, he gave us 3 tales intertwined together but I would have a hard time to tell you what was the connection between these 3 stories. To make it even more complex, the different parts had also some complete different directing styles. For example, ‘Hero’ which was dealing with a small boy who shot his father and then might have been flying away afterwards was shot as some kind of satirical mockumentary. ‘Horror’ was shot in black-and-white and was some kind of vintage B horror feature. Finally, ‘Homo’ was even more intricate. Indeed, it might have seemed to be some kind of typical Jean Genet bleak and steamy Queer jail love story but it was apparently not enough as it was also constantly jumping back-and-forth between past and present but both time periods did feel like 2 completely different movies. Eventually, it did remind me of ‘Wonderstruck’ which mixed two storylines in different time periods, one shot in color and the other in black-and-white. However, if ‘Wonderstruck’ was pretty straightforward after all, this movie was a big mess though, at least that’s how I experienced it. Eventually, I read somewhere that the link between the stories could be sex (the little boy in ‘Hero’ didn’t have sex, thank God for that, but he did witness his mother having sex with some random guy) which was interesting but I have to admit that I didn’t catch it at all while watching the damned thing. To be honest, I was scratching my head through the whole duration. Anyway, to conclude, this movie did get some few extra points for its experimental and artistic aspects but, to be honest, I can’t say I really enjoyed it though. 

6/10