This is one BORING movie.
The main character is a confused, spoiled brat, acting like she's either drunk, doped or bipolar, sold to us as someone "educated in Europe" and "interested in art" and at odds with the local culture and customs of some old town "back home". The truth is just a bad script, confused character writing, no arc development and probably lousy directing.
Evans is the pretty, silent lead male; inconsistent and poor writing makes him seem just plain dumb, with a rigid insistence on morality that only support the dumbness. He's mostly like an impossibly beautiful doll - a wooden doll. Too perfect in his simplicity to even seem slightly realistic. When he cries at one point (bc his mom is crazy and can't recognize him) you can see the real loss here - Evans's talent wasted by a talent-less writer and a dumb script.
Lots of other characters describe these two throughout the film in ways that make you only feel more confused (are we watching the same people, here?).
Things happen that make no sense and nobody is explaining them; people have wild reactions out of the blue with no reason, no explanation given. (why did she HAVE to say she found the diamond even though she hadn't? how is that socially required?).
The aunt is the most irrelevant character on the planet, has a few monosyllabic lines, no reactions whatsoever, could've been played just as well by a pillow on a couch - yet most of the plot is "driven" on her behalf.
And when the movie is based on the social obligation of a "already too old" young woman to attend a debutante ball, but later develops into a party where everybody plays a social "game" that involves kissing for 3 minutes (and actually involves sex in the back seat of a car) makes you wonder: when did this film turn into a parody?!?
Ellen Burstyn is the only character who seems realistic, and she too is wasted in this horrible mess. Her character makes absolutely no sense for the story, so I can only assume someone thought it would add some depth to the main character.... but, nope. Of curse a spoiled, superficial woman would give someone drugs to die - not because she understands, but bc she's so impressed by this woman's story of drug use and the happiness that brings (which she quickly puts into practice). So instead of showing us an evolved, philosophically sophisticated woman, we get to see, again, just how messy she (and this whole movie) is.
If you want to see a horribly written scene, take a look at the one that creates ALL the drama of this silly movie (when Fisher loses the earring) aka "There dumb people pretending to do things". If we didn't know by now that none of the actors involved are idiots, I'd also say that some horrible acting too. It makes you scream of them - let's just move on, shall we? it's obvious none of you actually wants that thing found or gives a damn, so... let's get going!
The main character is a confused, spoiled brat, acting like she's either drunk, doped or bipolar, sold to us as someone "educated in Europe" and "interested in art" and at odds with the local culture and customs of some old town "back home". The truth is just a bad script, confused character writing, no arc development and probably lousy directing.
Evans is the pretty, silent lead male; inconsistent and poor writing makes him seem just plain dumb, with a rigid insistence on morality that only support the dumbness. He's mostly like an impossibly beautiful doll - a wooden doll. Too perfect in his simplicity to even seem slightly realistic. When he cries at one point (bc his mom is crazy and can't recognize him) you can see the real loss here - Evans's talent wasted by a talent-less writer and a dumb script.
Lots of other characters describe these two throughout the film in ways that make you only feel more confused (are we watching the same people, here?).
Things happen that make no sense and nobody is explaining them; people have wild reactions out of the blue with no reason, no explanation given. (why did she HAVE to say she found the diamond even though she hadn't? how is that socially required?).
The aunt is the most irrelevant character on the planet, has a few monosyllabic lines, no reactions whatsoever, could've been played just as well by a pillow on a couch - yet most of the plot is "driven" on her behalf.
And when the movie is based on the social obligation of a "already too old" young woman to attend a debutante ball, but later develops into a party where everybody plays a social "game" that involves kissing for 3 minutes (and actually involves sex in the back seat of a car) makes you wonder: when did this film turn into a parody?!?
Ellen Burstyn is the only character who seems realistic, and she too is wasted in this horrible mess. Her character makes absolutely no sense for the story, so I can only assume someone thought it would add some depth to the main character.... but, nope. Of curse a spoiled, superficial woman would give someone drugs to die - not because she understands, but bc she's so impressed by this woman's story of drug use and the happiness that brings (which she quickly puts into practice). So instead of showing us an evolved, philosophically sophisticated woman, we get to see, again, just how messy she (and this whole movie) is.
If you want to see a horribly written scene, take a look at the one that creates ALL the drama of this silly movie (when Fisher loses the earring) aka "There dumb people pretending to do things". If we didn't know by now that none of the actors involved are idiots, I'd also say that some horrible acting too. It makes you scream of them - let's just move on, shall we? it's obvious none of you actually wants that thing found or gives a damn, so... let's get going!