Movies directed like this should be injected with a small dosage of depth and purpose, so as to let viewers find the meaning of the movie themselves as supposed to being hit in the face with the same "meaningful" messages time after time.
Pretending, becoming a man, forgiving and forgetting, these are all points of interest thrown about the film with all the subtly and grace of a blunt axe. These concepts are deep and could have been put of as so if done differently but alas, they were not and so you are now looking at a weak, watered down, and pretentious version of the Coen brothers movie "A Serious Man" which, while odd and somewhat awkward, understands subtly.
The acting was not "bad", I actually think the whole cast did quite well considering what they had to do. How can a little boy swearing at random and speaking about forgiveness in such a tone as he did be considered believable? How can a mother talk about "getting wet" to her son seem like a real mother? Granted, mothers have moments of being inappropriate, but come now, let's not push it.
Perhaps I am missing something and this is a good film, but I left this movie thinking nothing but, "Shocking and forward, but not artistic and certainly not deep."
Pretending, becoming a man, forgiving and forgetting, these are all points of interest thrown about the film with all the subtly and grace of a blunt axe. These concepts are deep and could have been put of as so if done differently but alas, they were not and so you are now looking at a weak, watered down, and pretentious version of the Coen brothers movie "A Serious Man" which, while odd and somewhat awkward, understands subtly.
The acting was not "bad", I actually think the whole cast did quite well considering what they had to do. How can a little boy swearing at random and speaking about forgiveness in such a tone as he did be considered believable? How can a mother talk about "getting wet" to her son seem like a real mother? Granted, mothers have moments of being inappropriate, but come now, let's not push it.
Perhaps I am missing something and this is a good film, but I left this movie thinking nothing but, "Shocking and forward, but not artistic and certainly not deep."