Half-Life

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04/12/2019 A poetic movie about the incomprehensible world of adults seen through the eyes of a child An original movie about a mother trying to maintain her family whole while escaping loneliness A creative movie about how the environment/context affects our lives An ambitious movie ... with too many facets to chew. Furthermore, its estranged dialogues and backgroundless personages keep us at a distance See more 08/18/2014 Enigmatic, slow-moving. See more 06/11/2012 I don't understand nothing !!! So bad !!! See more 06/02/2012 Appreciated this artistic independent film of an apocalyptic scenario. Narrated with intelligence and depth through visual layers and tonal variations that span fantasy and real human drama. Thoughtful casting. See more 06/26/2010 Hopeless... a waste of time... See more 06/01/2010 Let's play a game of Cosmic Whack-a-Mole! Every time a character appears, strike it on the head so it delivers lines from a concussed state where it is so confused that banal lines take on some sort of meaning. I found very few credible performances here. As I joke, it seemed like every performer had a concussion. Everything appealing about the movie had nothing to do with the plot. The backdrop of global disasters delivered through various media. A visually appealing anime style that was a welcome distraction from drudge. Every good shot that I saw was one without any character in it. Yet I see a lot of critical gushing over another film fest baby. To me it's another example of how desperate we are as a viewing public for anything truly artistic that somebody can easily push buttons and make them all agog. Fundamentalist cardboard cutout parents in denial with a gay son. His lover, a teacher, that gets fired for being gay. An apathetic young lady and her dissociative brother who are troubled by a parental breakup. The frustrated mother and her lover. All of them flat and two dimensional at best. What is the point? Find hope despite a looming apocalypse? Where? In fractured relationships? Apathy? Flights of fantasy? The flip side of a half-life is half-dead. If I was forced to endure more "brilliant" cinema like this as a routine I would also hope for the Sun to explode and kill us all. See more Read all reviews

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