Anyone saying this movie is ridiculous because of the planet is overlooking the entire rest of the movie's ridiculousness.
The director is a clueless hack.
The movie opens in slow motion. Painful, boring, slow motion that means nothing, ever at any point.
For the rest of the movie we are treated to jerky camera work. With the camera often jerking all over the room, cutting around randomly just to jerk around some more it becomes nauseating.
I'm sure the director thinks this creates a feeling of something, I think they're just incompetent and hiding their inability to portray emotions without resorting to gimmicks. The sound is used the same way; the instrumentals a exploited for heavily for exposition.
After the slow motion ends, we're suddenly in a limo with a bride and groom whose driver is having trouble parking. In what world does the bride and groom stay in the limo while it's being parked? In what world does anyone who has hired a limo stay in the limo while it's being parked? The director and writer are showing their incompetence isn't just a one off, it's going to be the entire movie.
I'm sure there is supposed to be some deep hidden meaning behind no one noticing when the bride gets up and wanders off in the middle of dinner by herself, but this again shows that this world is nonsense.
Apparently this is about depression but it's not really, I'm certain that just a cover to explain this horrible mess.
This isn't what depression looks like for most people. Most people that are depressed aren't surrounded by horrible; people who find it appropriate to chastise the bride about the cost of a reception; people who pull the bridge aside to remind them not to cause a scenes; people who make the night about their petty grievances rather than the wedding couple and their future.
The second half of the film shows an alternative reality...apparently. This is closer to depression but the first half is too terrible to make up for it.
If there is a story about depression meant to be told here I don't see it. There is most definitely a depressed character in this movie but there is zero exploration. The director disgustingly uses it as a vehicle to provoke the viewer on multiple occasions.
The director did the viewer no favor by not flipping the second half with the first and I'm not going to subject myself to a second viewing because of the director's incompetence. The idea of rewatching the jerky camera work makes me want to vomit.
It's quite clear by when the reviews were created that this movie was overly hyped during its release and then quickly forgotten. Good riddance.
If there is a movie that does a better job of insisting upon itself, I have not yet seen it.
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