What's not to love here? The pretentiousness, the length, the abstract nature of it all, the meandering, the strange editing choices, the psuedo-meta-experiment nature as well. Strangely, these are the exact reasons to love this, for some...for me, they are not.
This film forces you to engage with it, either way you lose cinephile points. But it's forcing you to do that with no conclusion at the end. With no feeling at the end (or throughout) except the one that you witnessed some sort of cinematic art that is "layered" and filled with "meaning". Its only value is that it creates discourse.
My biggest argument against this is: if there is a young director who makes the same kind of empty "cinematic art" today his film will be instantly shut down by all.
This film forces you to engage with it, either way you lose cinephile points. But it's forcing you to do that with no conclusion at the end. With no feeling at the end (or throughout) except the one that you witnessed some sort of cinematic art that is "layered" and filled with "meaning". Its only value is that it creates discourse.
My biggest argument against this is: if there is a young director who makes the same kind of empty "cinematic art" today his film will be instantly shut down by all.