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MOMMY (2014)
I felt like this movie was yelling at me for almost the entire time. BTW, I almost wrote this entire review in CAPS as to emulate the film's emotions. But you don't want to read a review in caps, so lucky you
I think this movie succeeded brilliantly at what it's trying to do. And oh yes, I understand why the director used that odd narrow format and the ultra closeups. The entire film was mostly near-close up to very close-ups and that was to immerse the viewer in the mom's world, she was literally trapped with a son whom she loved and yet HE WAS ALWAYS IN PEOPLES FACES. So if you watched this on a tiny screen mobile phone, your experience is going to be different than watching it on a big screen TV. I watched it on a big TV and it rattled my nerves (which I believe the director intended for the film to do.)
So this was genius film making and it worked too good on me, I must say. I was annoyed like I've never been annoyed before! God that kid drove me crazy. I truly hated him and his obnoxiously rude mother too. They were both SO LOUD and so OBNOXIOUS that I actually hated them.
I mean I could just not take these people! Well except for the neighbor school teacher on sabbatical. I liked her, she was the only main character I could related to. She had most of the quieter scenes when she talked to the mom. I wanted to know more about her, she seemed to have something going on in her life but we never really find out what it is.
So in the end when the screen goes full screen and we see the grown boy, now a man, graduating from college and getting married...that too was cutting edge film making, because in that moment the mother dreamed what could have been, and her world opened up...and as her hope expanded, we had wide screen! Which made me breath a sigh of relief, though it was short lived.
So my respects to the film maker and I don't say this is a poorly made film, just the opposite it's very original, but it's not the type of film my personality can like.
I don't know how to rate this so:
No Rating
MOMMY (2014)
Director: Xavier Dolan
Writer: Xavier Dolan (screenplay)
Cast: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama
Writer: Xavier Dolan (screenplay)
Cast: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément
Genre: Drama
"A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone and finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household."
I felt like this movie was yelling at me for almost the entire time. BTW, I almost wrote this entire review in CAPS as to emulate the film's emotions. But you don't want to read a review in caps, so lucky you
I think this movie succeeded brilliantly at what it's trying to do. And oh yes, I understand why the director used that odd narrow format and the ultra closeups. The entire film was mostly near-close up to very close-ups and that was to immerse the viewer in the mom's world, she was literally trapped with a son whom she loved and yet HE WAS ALWAYS IN PEOPLES FACES. So if you watched this on a tiny screen mobile phone, your experience is going to be different than watching it on a big screen TV. I watched it on a big TV and it rattled my nerves (which I believe the director intended for the film to do.)
The 1:1 screen ratio and the closeups are quite unique and give us a visual of ADD and boy did this kid have the ADD rages.
So this was genius film making and it worked too good on me, I must say. I was annoyed like I've never been annoyed before! God that kid drove me crazy. I truly hated him and his obnoxiously rude mother too. They were both SO LOUD and so OBNOXIOUS that I actually hated them.
I mean I could just not take these people! Well except for the neighbor school teacher on sabbatical. I liked her, she was the only main character I could related to. She had most of the quieter scenes when she talked to the mom. I wanted to know more about her, she seemed to have something going on in her life but we never really find out what it is.
So in the end when the screen goes full screen and we see the grown boy, now a man, graduating from college and getting married...that too was cutting edge film making, because in that moment the mother dreamed what could have been, and her world opened up...and as her hope expanded, we had wide screen! Which made me breath a sigh of relief, though it was short lived.
So my respects to the film maker and I don't say this is a poorly made film, just the opposite it's very original, but it's not the type of film my personality can like.
I don't know how to rate this so:
No Rating