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Wow. Saw this last night. I really liked it, even though I'm still not quite sure what to make of it. It has stayed with me and made me feel like I might want to see it again. I'm often bored for stretches in most movies but I was compelled to watch this one the entire time, feeling like I had no idea what might happen next. It flows very well imo. Stacked cast with excellent performances from Ed Norton and Emma Stone, and especially Keaton, whom I have always liked. This is a great role for him.
My wife didn't love it; she didn't hate it either, but she was tired and it is on the longer side, and she has less patience than I do for movies that don't make the line between fantasy and reality clear--and this one definitely does not. I liked the ambiguity and uncertainty. In a way it reminded me of American Beauty, another one that I loved and she did not. It's not as grounded or cohesive as that, but imo it plays with some of same themes, especially the search for love and meaning in ordinary lives, which can be sad or beautiful--or both--depending on how you look at it.
On its face it looks like a movie about the industry, and it certainly is on some level, but I don't think that's what it's really about at all.
Interested if anyone else here saw it and, if so, what you thought of it.
My wife didn't love it; she didn't hate it either, but she was tired and it is on the longer side, and she has less patience than I do for movies that don't make the line between fantasy and reality clear--and this one definitely does not. I liked the ambiguity and uncertainty. In a way it reminded me of American Beauty, another one that I loved and she did not. It's not as grounded or cohesive as that, but imo it plays with some of same themes, especially the search for love and meaning in ordinary lives, which can be sad or beautiful--or both--depending on how you look at it.
On its face it looks like a movie about the industry, and it certainly is on some level, but I don't think that's what it's really about at all.
Interested if anyone else here saw it and, if so, what you thought of it.