I completely agree with cynthiacaton's review, couldn't have said it better.
The only thing going for this movie is the fact that it is beautifully shot, I always enjoy seeing filmmakers using actual film. Otherwise, this movie is a 2 hour attempt on your mental health. It wants you to be depressed and it hates you for being normal. Not happy, just normal. The script fails to humanize a single character in this movie, they're all really just fragments or stereotypes, leaving me to believe that the town itself is the main character. Aha! That's smart, but unfortunately not a good thing. What was the message then? Is this the normal behavior of Irish small town folk? Heck no. Ridiculous drunken men making fun of assault victims? I don't think so. Mothers leaving their sons to drown like it's God's revenge and it had to be this way? In what universe would this actually happen?
Needles to say I hated all the characters, and my frustration was through the roof when at the end I had to watch a secondary, yes secondary, character give an overly dramatic and nonsensical speech and then I had to watch her leave town for five to ten minutes, I'm not making this up, the longest take in Irish film making history is of this girl in a car driving the hell away from that town, that movie,.. and thankfully from my life.
The actors are doing their best with the script, it's definitely not their fault, they're brilliant, really.
If you read this and think I'm just not getting it and this movie is too good/smart/abstract/slow/ (insert whatever you want here) for me, please know that I absolutely loved and highly recommend "The killing of two lovers".
The only thing going for this movie is the fact that it is beautifully shot, I always enjoy seeing filmmakers using actual film. Otherwise, this movie is a 2 hour attempt on your mental health. It wants you to be depressed and it hates you for being normal. Not happy, just normal. The script fails to humanize a single character in this movie, they're all really just fragments or stereotypes, leaving me to believe that the town itself is the main character. Aha! That's smart, but unfortunately not a good thing. What was the message then? Is this the normal behavior of Irish small town folk? Heck no. Ridiculous drunken men making fun of assault victims? I don't think so. Mothers leaving their sons to drown like it's God's revenge and it had to be this way? In what universe would this actually happen?
Needles to say I hated all the characters, and my frustration was through the roof when at the end I had to watch a secondary, yes secondary, character give an overly dramatic and nonsensical speech and then I had to watch her leave town for five to ten minutes, I'm not making this up, the longest take in Irish film making history is of this girl in a car driving the hell away from that town, that movie,.. and thankfully from my life.
The actors are doing their best with the script, it's definitely not their fault, they're brilliant, really.
If you read this and think I'm just not getting it and this movie is too good/smart/abstract/slow/ (insert whatever you want here) for me, please know that I absolutely loved and highly recommend "The killing of two lovers".