"Ariel" is a film that is apparently brilliant according to some reviewers, so I expected something other than what I saw. What I saw was what seemed like a crime film that starred zombies. Zombies?! Yep...or at least they had the emotional range of zombies. NONE of the actors showed any emotion...none. It was as if they were the living dead or had been lobotomized--and I bet you never knew you needed to see a film like this!! Sadly, it was not a comedy...so the zombie thing didn't work for me.
The film begins with a guy telling his son that life stinks. Then, the father calmly walks into the bathroom and blows out his brains. The son has no reaction to any of this. I think that this was meant to be an absurdist film. By 'absurdist' I mean a brilliant and sophisticated comedy that is simply too brilliant and sophisticated for 99.98% of the population to understand or enjoy. And, I guess I am just one of those stupid troglodytes who couldn't get the genius that was "Ariel".
I could talk more about the plot, but frankly the plot was irrelevant. Everything that happened seemed to make little sense nor did most of the people's reactions. And, since I didn't enjoy a single minute of it, I won't bother to discuss the bizarre meeting with the meter-maid, the 6 year-old who greets the leading man with a Luger or any of the rest of this weird (and not in a good way) film.
If you actually like this sort of thing, try watching "Buffet Froid"--a French film that makes even LESS sense than this one. It, too, is too smart for us mere mortals.
The film begins with a guy telling his son that life stinks. Then, the father calmly walks into the bathroom and blows out his brains. The son has no reaction to any of this. I think that this was meant to be an absurdist film. By 'absurdist' I mean a brilliant and sophisticated comedy that is simply too brilliant and sophisticated for 99.98% of the population to understand or enjoy. And, I guess I am just one of those stupid troglodytes who couldn't get the genius that was "Ariel".
I could talk more about the plot, but frankly the plot was irrelevant. Everything that happened seemed to make little sense nor did most of the people's reactions. And, since I didn't enjoy a single minute of it, I won't bother to discuss the bizarre meeting with the meter-maid, the 6 year-old who greets the leading man with a Luger or any of the rest of this weird (and not in a good way) film.
If you actually like this sort of thing, try watching "Buffet Froid"--a French film that makes even LESS sense than this one. It, too, is too smart for us mere mortals.