Waste of time

Very Cool!!!

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Cute because several stray scenes are funny (though a few with black humour not to mention of the very bad and ugly idea of showing a child, virtual though, exploding in the middle of the square that seems to be the movie's theme). It looks like an ambitious movie in the sense of wanting to reveal the moral contradictions of our society but it doesn't come up much to that goal. It is therefore a great way off being a good film. It develops itself in somewhat disconnected sequences starting from two basis situations: a planned exhibition in a museum and the theft of the museum curator's wallet, cellphone and cuff-links outside in a public street by means of feigned assault scene where he tried to help the supposed victim and prevent the supposed assault among the passers-by that crossed the street totally indifferent to what was going on. From then on the curator gets himseld envolved in several confusions of doubtful meaning. A movie no more than tolerable.

This film tells the story of a museum curator's life.It is a long film. Though there are enough events to fill the screen time, the events aren't gripping or captivating. They are events that are a little out of the ordinary in the mundane life. Some events are thought provoking, some are frustrating and some have unintended consequences. Overall, it is a film to think about and process.

In lesser hands, this movie would have been a 'dog's breakfast', but in the hands of this director, cast and crew (and it is both sumptuously shot and edited) it pulls you into the protagonist's life with both arms. If you have ever had a 'bad week', then this is the film for you to commiserate with the protagonist as every one of his 'up's' is accompanied with a resounding 'down' (I don't think this is a spoiler to give you this little bit of information). Well worth your time and the effort to watch it (it is over two hours long after all...) and sometimes nothing seems to be happening until it does. I gave it a "9" to pull up it's overall average up to what I think is a first class film worthy of your attention if only scores above "8" get you interested.

Someone got disappointed with IMDB community for rating this movie above 1. How about developing a healthy respect for people whose opinions differ from our own? When we do not understand someone's perspective often times what they say sometimes sounds a bit 'bizarre' to us. A person interprets things according to individual perspective, biases and sensitivities. So, except of couple of scenes, which I "didn't get", I enjoyed watching this movie.