Anesthesia

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Rodney H Loved it!!! Yeah, it maybe talks down to you, but dude’s a philosophy professor so that’s pretty much his job. Every actor/actress really owns their role and I found this a compelling watch with plenty of food for thought as well. Best of all - highly entertaining and the whole thing whizzes by before you know it. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/15/24 Full Review Audience Member I loved it and the character Sophie portrays teenage struggles and self harm quite well. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review steve d Too many fine actors with no time to develop their characters and nothing for them to do. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member The big problem is that this movie is going to condescend to you. It's going to use big words and have high concept conversations for no real reason other than to deliver the characters as the types of people that would have those conversations when they could easily have more meaningful simpler conversations, implying that the audience for this movie is intended for those people. That message is immediately lost on the wide variety of characters as this is a multi-threaded story (think "Love, Actually") and situations that we're supposed relate to on behalf of the characters. There is a slew of faces you might recognize, among them Hannah Marx and Kristen Stewart. Most of the acting is well done for what they were given. The movie, while not technically intensive, is shot extremely well, and of nothing else the movie is well balanced with an almost perfect use of "starting with the ending", seriously it comes together beautifully. While I did enjoy the movie somewhat, its more out of respect for the overall composition that I'd rate it highly. It's hard to recommend it outside of academic purposes, and I don't think I'd watch it again. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Great cast. Lackluster story. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Poignant, raw, sincere, heartfelt and entertaining. Anesthesia is a good title referencing the methods people use to escape, deal with and numb life's myriad of pain as opiates like pot, heroin, alcohol, sex, an affair, self-mutilation, charity, heroism, love and technology. Despite the huge impersonal gap caused by tech, this snapshot of one area shows how little our human dilemmas have changed and how interconnected we still can be. I enjoyed the storytelling, the acting and the philosophy. I do wish the end wasn't quite so abrupt though, leaving a feeling of loose ends. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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