Yeah, yeah, I get it: we need light to see but yet we don't always see it. I mean... you might have called it "unseen light" or something...
I bet they thought they were making a thoughtful and revitalizing rumination on evil, morality, truth, persisting against adversity blah blah blah.
I wonder if I use the word "sophomoric" too often but this had absolutely no self-awareness at all. The lay on the attempt at lyricism and pathos with a shovel and it is not subtle in the slightest. That moment when the title becomes dialogue can be amazing but they are as premature as a high-school boy in the delivery and that is a microcosm of this simpering little flag waver.
I might have really liked this when I was 14. The way it colloquizes in a poetical, stylized way with its characters trapped in that episode of history where everything went a bit cuckoo bananas (I think it was just one time; no others ever get into movies).
But it is relentless with pseudo-intellectual drivel and overtones of smugness. The flashbacks with the little blind girl are especially saccharine (quelle petite garce!) and the extended metaphor of the light is so heavy handed...
Everything you need to make sure your serious story isn't taken seriously is there. There's isn't a single character that is both likable and developed. Very sentimental and none of the candour that made Game of Thrones credible; it just talks down to you.
Finally, this cannot be said enough:
It's NOT OK that it's in English.
It's NOT OK that it's in English.
It's NOT OK that it's in English.
That cast a shadow over the whole thing and it wasn't great to begin with.
Unintriguing, flaccid and simply irksome to watch.
I wish that the light had never found this.
I bet they thought they were making a thoughtful and revitalizing rumination on evil, morality, truth, persisting against adversity blah blah blah.
I wonder if I use the word "sophomoric" too often but this had absolutely no self-awareness at all. The lay on the attempt at lyricism and pathos with a shovel and it is not subtle in the slightest. That moment when the title becomes dialogue can be amazing but they are as premature as a high-school boy in the delivery and that is a microcosm of this simpering little flag waver.
I might have really liked this when I was 14. The way it colloquizes in a poetical, stylized way with its characters trapped in that episode of history where everything went a bit cuckoo bananas (I think it was just one time; no others ever get into movies).
But it is relentless with pseudo-intellectual drivel and overtones of smugness. The flashbacks with the little blind girl are especially saccharine (quelle petite garce!) and the extended metaphor of the light is so heavy handed...
Everything you need to make sure your serious story isn't taken seriously is there. There's isn't a single character that is both likable and developed. Very sentimental and none of the candour that made Game of Thrones credible; it just talks down to you.
Finally, this cannot be said enough:
It's NOT OK that it's in English.
It's NOT OK that it's in English.
It's NOT OK that it's in English.
That cast a shadow over the whole thing and it wasn't great to begin with.
Unintriguing, flaccid and simply irksome to watch.
I wish that the light had never found this.