I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

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Audience Member Laconic and achingly gorgeous. Tarkovskian long-shots with almost no dialogue and a mostly inscrutable plot. This isn't a film meant to be understood but to be experienced through the emotions. Erotic and tender. One of the most stunning final shots in cinema. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member It is interesting to read all the different comments about the movie. Their description of the plot does not overlap, which is easy to understand after you watch the movie. There is very little dialogue among the characters, practically inexistent between the main characters. Most of the plot is inferred; parts of the plot are even impossible to discern, including the relationship between some of the characters. Nonetheless, and challenging our normal use of language, the movie captures the best and the worst of humankind without words. Whereas some characters show cruelty, others are compassionate. Most of all, this is the story of how three people come together in their loneliness and longing for company. . Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Ming-liang Tsai's films are something different. They may be slow, they may be flat but they are very observerable. This time we follow a man that takes care of another man that is found injured in the streets. He let him sleep at his place and he cares for him. Some other people are involved, often people lying in bed, sleeping. There is also a man in comatose played by the same man that are rescued. Minimalistic and utterly slow. It's easy to fall asleep as the viewer here, so like many other of his films you are hoping for a powerful ending after a slow build up. The ending is solid, but first of all it's pretty. A couple of lovely scenes - static, slow but beautifully shot are the highlights here. So, not a very easy film, it's demanding. I felt I was left unawarded since it's anything but entertaining - especially after the first 20 minutes or so. Almost free for words and dialogue but filled with realism. A quite calming experience - it's biggest feature. 5.5 out of 10 adult diapers. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member I Don't Want to Sleep Alone follows a group of people as they attempt to make connections with the people around them in a desperate plea for companionship in the context of a lonely world. The mattress motif is brilliant, a perfect metaphor for what it means to build something with another person, allowing for a finale that stands with the absolute best of his work (it's incredible how he's so consistently able to end his films in ways that feel absolutely perfect). The last twenty minutes or so are absolutely breathtaking, some sequences in a staircase that resembles M.C. Escher's Relativity seeming legitimately otherworldly, and the cruel, depressive darkness that looms over the entire experience has an incredible payoff during this period. I've never given credence to the theory that Tsai is in love with his straight leading man as I've found it to be moderately belittling to reduce a masterful director's personal life to an old gay stereotype, but if there was ever a film to make the case that this was actually true, it would be I Don't Want to Sleep Alone. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Another example of Tsai Ming-Liang's self-absorption. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member indescribable thoughts pouring on mind. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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