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pasitheaThe previews of this film had sort of got my hopes up, despite it being by the same pratt that did Waking Life.
As a film, it's far better than Waking Life.
But as far as I go, it didn't really live up to what I was hoping for. The visuals didn't go as far into the surreal as I would have hoped and the whole film really sucked any of the sense of fun out of the drugs. You didn't see any reason people would be using Substance D.
The 'revealation' at the end was no surprise at all. It was like it came up two minutes into the film and they kept beating it into my head with a claw hammer every two minutes. Maybe that was the point though, to try to get you to experience conditioning.
The overall effect for me was the overwhelming sensation that I will never watch another film by Lancelot Link or whatever his name was, and I felt like I was being forced to sit through one of those D.A.R.E. lectures in a sweaty highschool gymnasium.
Overall, not a film I really enjoyed. It had a few good moments and it was more coherent than Wanking Life but it still didn't do it for me.
As a film, it's far better than Waking Life.
But as far as I go, it didn't really live up to what I was hoping for. The visuals didn't go as far into the surreal as I would have hoped and the whole film really sucked any of the sense of fun out of the drugs. You didn't see any reason people would be using Substance D.
The 'revealation' at the end was no surprise at all. It was like it came up two minutes into the film and they kept beating it into my head with a claw hammer every two minutes. Maybe that was the point though, to try to get you to experience conditioning.
The overall effect for me was the overwhelming sensation that I will never watch another film by Lancelot Link or whatever his name was, and I felt like I was being forced to sit through one of those D.A.R.E. lectures in a sweaty highschool gymnasium.
Overall, not a film I really enjoyed. It had a few good moments and it was more coherent than Wanking Life but it still didn't do it for me.
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Date: 2006-07-22 08:58 am (UTC)No, the droning and pointless characters taking pills because it was an escape from the bordom of their lives and being able to be excited about the simplest things.
Of course, the movie made the 'normal' people seem no better off than those doing drugs, either. Completely unwilling or unable to say or do anything outside their little predetermined paths.
Not a movie which proscribed to free will. Of course, no deity was there, only the conformity of corrupt money and fear.