I think it’s well worth discussion, especially the very first scene:
So we see the soon to be short haired woman “with no feelings” at the hotel, driving a car on a rainy day. She parks, gets out and shoots a donkey. Leaves. What the hell was that? If you’ve seen it, what’re your thoughts? I assume it’s an ex or something like that.
Haven’t seen it. It’s a bit hard to tell what it is from the trailer. I’m guessing something like Punch-Drunk Love, a romance between people who aren’t quite all there upstairs?
No. If you’re single and not in love, you at taken to a hotel and must fall in love in 45 days or be surgically turned into the animal of you’re choice. For Colin Farrel’s carachter, he chooses lobster. Sort of, if you can’t find love then you can’t be in society. Off to the animal world with you… or so I think.
This is the first I’ve heard of it but I’d see Rachel Weisz in pretty much anything and this sounds quirky and interesting so I think I’ll give it a shot. It’s playing near me, I might go see it tomorrow.
Great little film; I saw it last October but it keeps coming back to the arthouse cinemas here… When I think about scenes in it I sometimes get confused with Youth, another quirky film also set in a hotel, which I saw fairly recently, too.
I don’t think I really considered why the donkey was shot as it was too early in the film to know what was going on.
I assume it was someone who had been consigned to the hotel and failed to fall in love with her although she loved him. So she shot him as he had ruined both their chances. She may have arrived after him, or prolonged her stay and outlasted him by rounding up attempted escapees.
Was it her former love and she was getting revenge?
I also saw it back in the fall or early winter in Royal Oak, Michigan. Thought the first 60 minutes or so were brilliant and funny, but it kind of dragged in the final 45 minutes or so.
It was good, but it fell from an A to a B- for me throughout.
A very funny, very quirky, very dark comedy. I thought it was brilliant, the first scene just gives it all a big WTF opening. BTW I think it was definitely a romance that had gone bad.
That was my first impression of this film when I first heard about it. It seems very much along the same line as** Being John Malkovich** and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which, in my opinion, isn’t a bad thing).
I think the whole theme of “things we have in common” beats out common sense, where David could be her eyes. But the dystopian society traits in this film seems like a couple who are BOTH blind are a much better fit for each other and society.
I just saw the movie and really liked it. There were a lot of people laughing out loud at my theater. Eternal Sunshine is a good comparison for it. I’ll be recommending it to a lot of my friends; I know it’s not going to be a blockbuster but I hope it does well for the weird little movie it is.
Anyone else think the sight of the dog on the bathroom floor was a little too gruesome?
I that going so explicit with the visual actually helps to convey just how strenuously he had to try to fake not being affected by it. Making the audience feel an emotional response at the sight of the dog in a pool of blood sets up an understanding for how impossible it was for him to not break down.
Still, there are a few people to whom I would otherwise recommend this movie but I know they’d be way too upset by the graphic reveal in this scene.
I could have lived without the dog scene, but otherwise it was a deliciously dark and sarcastic deconstruction of singlehood and societal pressure and inanity. It was no love letter to single people though.
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