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Audience Member I love my fair share of bleak and painful movies, but this one is incredibly mind-numbing and pointlessly boring. OK, so Russia is a bleak place, I get the picture. This message is overvalued by critics because it's paired with very good directing. The thing is, the directing doesn't change the terrible script. The good directing is the only thing keeping me from considering this movie a 0/10. It's not that hard to make everything feel grey, what's important is where you take that feeling, and this film takes it nowhere. I understand that this is the whole point of the movie, but that's why it's not a good movie. There are always deep intricacies in human existence even when we run into dead ends, but this movie ignores everything except the dead ends. If you want to see a movie that creates this kind of feeling but actually takes it somewhere with artistic value, look up Bela Tarr. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member good look at post-communist russia Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Gritty, gorgeous, unrelenting, haunting, blunt--hits you like a bucket of cement. It's a movie of little words, and the more I try to express its beauty, the more injustice I do to it... Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review walter m In "My Joy," Georgy(Viktor Nemets), a truck driver, is minding his business on a normal haul when he picks up an old man(Vladimir Golovin) as a hitchhiker who regales him with tales of the troubles he had getting home at the end of the Great Patriotic War. When Georgy futilely attempts to get diesel at a gas station, the old man simply walks off. Later, Georgy gets stuck in a traffic jam caused by an accident where a prostitute(Olga Shuvalova) who claims she is 18 tries to drum up some business. Okay, so far, not so bad, with the movie serving as an allegorical rumination on all that has not changed from the old Soviet Union to the new Russia, starting with random identity checks because nobody is really sure who anybody is anymore. Along these same lines, at a scene where the characters are talking about a war, it took me a minute to realize which war. But while it is okay to play with reality a little, here it goes too far which causes the movie to lose the narrative completely, making it almost impossible to follow for a good deal of its second half, which is an accomplishment for me, and not even remotely in a good way. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member a road movie headed nowhere. 15 4 2013 Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was AMAZING. Very very dark. And no, that is NOT Zach Galifanakous on the cover. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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