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Audience Member Weak movie i think hes worth 0% Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member We love Wong Kar-Wai's movies, but he is not without his excesses, like shooting a movie without a script and treating his actors like props, as he formulates the different possible permutations in his mind. The worst thing is when a newbie filmmaker, desperate to emulate his idol, thinks he can do what Wong does, which more often than not, results in pretentious garbage that neither narratively sound nor aesthetically pleasing. This is one of them. It's damning praise when the best thing about a film is the sound design, but honestly, that's the one bright spark that stands out in a non-movie that's a pretentious critic's wet dream. No narrative, check. Ugly shots, check. Pseudo-intellectual artistic statements, check. Theme that's actually quite easy to grasp, but entirely not worth the effort of grasping, check. OK, there's one good sequence, which is fake archival footage ostensibly shot in the mental hospital. Too bad even that is cribbed from actual archival footage shot in the US in the 1940s - the actors emulate almost the exact same movements, and in many instances, the camera position chosen is exactly the same. Do a search online for the "Prelinger Archives" and look for the documentary short "Symptoms of Schizophrenia", and you'll see what I mean. This sort of pretentious garbage is apparently what gets you film grants and gets foreign critics all excited. This state of affairs is an insult to those who work at their craft. You might have a right to make "art" for "art's sake" (though I'd argue that bad art shouldn't be considered art), but you have no right to con me out of the hard-earned money I paid for my ticket. If I could give it zero stars, I would. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member With slowly-paced shots, the opening of "Here" sets the tone of the rest of the movie. A man, He Zhiyuan, suddenly snaps and strangles his wife. Then, he gets sent to Island Hospital where they specialize in a form of therapy called "videocure". With multiple post-modern pokes at filmmaking, the film is a pseudo-documentary that slowly wears out its welcome because we are treated to more and more patients and less and less story points. Excelling in the areas of mood, visuals and sounds of the medium, "Here" has many threads of subject matter. Hints of a social satire and humour about the craft of filmmaking were not developed and taken advantaged of. Characters are more like symbols or representations of something the movie is trying to say. Despite scant hints of a love interest in fellow patient, Beatrice, "Here" is like its main character: elliptical and at times frustratingly emotionless. The film, however, fares slightly better than Zhiyuan's speech impediment. "Here" has many things to say but why does it have to whisper? Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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