I've read lots of comments about this movie being unconventional. That's funny because here are two mean, twisted individuals who end up frozen in concrete - well deservedly so. We feel sorry for the main character being so twisted since the movie has told us his mother's diagnosis with cancer caused him to be that way. And we feel sorry for his life long friend because she was poorly treated by school children and then poorly treated by the main character. But the characters continuing self-aggrandizing rejection of everything life has to offer eventually saps our sympathy.
There are a lot of stylish tricks so it is difficult to tell if Sophie is a figment of imagination or not. Or whether things really happen or are just fake flash forwards. These are mostly just distracting from the main issue - does an ordinary family life have much to offer? Well it does and I wish this film could have given it a better advocate in its intellectual discussion.
There are a lot of stylish tricks so it is difficult to tell if Sophie is a figment of imagination or not. Or whether things really happen or are just fake flash forwards. These are mostly just distracting from the main issue - does an ordinary family life have much to offer? Well it does and I wish this film could have given it a better advocate in its intellectual discussion.