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High Life Is Pretty Disappointing (spoilers)
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2024
- High LIfe is a new film starring a vampire and 15 year old girl. The movie takes place in space, where we follow a bunch of convicts that do sexual things and then get to a black hole. The film is disturbed by A24 a now famous studio known for funding low budget, high concept films. High Life is directed by Claire Denis.
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This is the kind of movie that even the writers don't know the answers to all the questions
Yes, love it or hate it, that's something I think we can all assume and agree on!
100%
I really love High Life. I think it’s a really interesting film about consent and control. The rape scenes are back to back for a reason: to juxtapose the state sponsored abuse of the bodily autonomy of the prisoners and the unendorsed individualist abuses of their rapes. It also looks at how differently consent and the lack of it plays out in different dynamics.
The crew of the ship are allowed to get off, are encouraged to in the ‘sex box’ but aren’t allowed to actually have any human intimacy or natural contact with each other. Everything is diverted and controlled. Monte refuses and chooses celibacy but has that violated in the end. The prisoners are impregnated, treated like animals and walking experiments, very much against their will. It’s a film that is all about consent and human dignity if you ask me.
None of the characters are all good or bad (except the baby), Monte kills someone who killed his dog. He prized his dog’s life over a person’s and he then, when faced with the decision to help the dogs on the other ship, is confronted by the fact that he now prizes his daughter’s life over the dogs’. The situation has flipped in some ways, but Monte still places his own protective instincts first (not saying this is wrong, but just that it’s not random that ship is filled with dogs).
Monte tries as hard as he can to retain his dignity, his human rights to bodily autonomy but the institution wins out in the end.
If you look at how society places people in prison and then does little to prevent them from being victims of crimes (rape especially) inside of prisons, then I think there are a lot of parallels with this film. Nobody is sentenced to rape, it is illegal everywhere, but prisoners are constantly subject to this crime whilst under state care apparently as part of their debt to society and a lot of people joke about it ‘don’t drop the soap’ etc or really feel gratification that someone is likely to have their human rights violated like that, but that is not what they were sentenced to, even if it is somehow part of peoples’ concept of what justice is. (Obviously this is outside of corrective rape used in some regions, widely regarded as a gross human rights violation against the lgbt+ community).
I think High Life viewed as a film about state endorsed human rights violations Vs individuals violating human rights and our attitudes towards them is a more cohesive and moving film than what you got out of it at the time of this review.
Maybe watch it again, ask yourself about the themes of consent and how we feel when consent is violated by institutions Vs individuals, men Vs women, how rape is depicted in media and whether that covers the full spectrum of what it is (it doesn’t by a long shot imo) and if rape is an inherently violent act regardless of how gentle or benign it may seem (it is).
Dayum 😂
Very well said 👍🏾
You should've reviewed this movie on CZcams
Also its a movie about how when your in prison how it effects the lives of the children. That child grew up on the ship and has never seen earth or the outside of that ship and did nothing to deserve that fate.
this is such a better take than the video lol
I only watched this movie for Robert Pattinson
me too lmao
That dude is underrated, one of my favorite actors, and is gonna be huge some day.
I really tried not to like him... Really because i didnt like twighlight.. But he is really underrated. And he gets into chatachter so well, that sometimes I dont realize its him at first.
I feel like anyone who likes Robert Pattinson outside of Harry Potter and Twilight have already seen Good Time, but if you haven't, it's such an outstanding film with, in my opinion, one of his absolute best (if not THE best) performances!
@@hannahgarcia8645 I havent seen it yet
I actually liked the movie quite a bit but I watched it at home and felt that if I seen this in the theaters I would’ve been disappointed.
100%. More of a streaming movie to watch late at night
I couldn’t disagree more, the black hole scene in theaters was genuinely thrilling
Joseph ... I'm at home, not in the theaters, and I"m kindof disappointed now. I'm trying to figure the ending 5 minutes out, because quite confused.
@@PoeLemic the end of the movie is pretty much him deciding to suicide them both.
@@jessicaxhanning2111 Sorry, I stand to differ. To me, that's one direction that the Ending of the movie, didn't seem to promote, or I didn't feel anything suggesting that. Didn't it seem like they were talking about happy things and eventual possibilities? I thought they were going through a hole to somewhere happier. But, again, been a while since I've seen it.
no film has ever left me so confused. so many questions.. do i even need the answers?
One question I have is why do their suits look so simple I mean where does the oxygen they breathe come from like I don’t see the tank
I’m almost certain whoever wrote it doesn’t even have the answers. Just some faux intellectual art house shit.
@@ginnyweasley411I thought the same thing!
IMO...The movie made sense... Mia Goth's death is symbolic of her body being violated, she's basically "raped" by the smaller black hole. Her death represents exactly what is going on within her. The larger the black hole, the less dangerous it is until you reached that point which we don't know what lies beyond it. When Patterson says, "Shall we," it's not evident that they are dying but their fate is uncertain as he takes his daughter's hand into the unknown. Willow's transition into womanhood and the ending with her father seems more about the love a father has for his daughter. The ending to me was kinda open but we don't know what is at the end point of a black hole and neither do the characters. Do they die, maybe, but not at that moment most likely. I want to believe that them being in proximity of the black hole affected a lot of different timelines too. Something to think about.
damn you work for spark notes or something that’s some next level analogies
I like your point of view!
I feel that they died at the end because it cut from them in the shuttle to standing there, Willow an adult, outside of their space suits.
I felt that they were moving onto a different level and a different reality.
I felt that they both knew that the ship could no longer sustain them and they both decided to go, knowing that they would probably die but being unafraid to do so together
Did anyone notice that the woman that hits the doctor with a shovel isn't explained, like how she dies?
She got hit in the face with the shovel. If you don’t think that would kill a person google how many people have been killed by shovels
I’m ww1 or ww2 lmfaoooo
They strip the shovel form her arms and then wack her with it. Take a seat.
@@Spooky_rusty in movie logic, shovels have only knocked people out unless its emphasized that they actually died by that so, I was left wondering.
Right, and they never really say how the black guy dies either, unless I missed it? Did he just bury himself alive in the garden?
@@vanessavigil8850 i felt like his death was meant to be some kind of metaphor.. But I'm not sure what the metaphor is.. Lol.. Like I laughed outloud when they did him like that
I found the movie engaging but when it ended it felt more like a rough draft of potentially interesting ideas. I get a certain amount of ambiguity but very little is explained. I'd like to know at least some of the character's motivations. Did the one guy just decide to lay down and die? Why did the doctor leave the airlock? Why were all the dead folks kept in cold storage? For how long? Why were they put into space suits before being jettisoned? I understand the writer/director wanting to explore some ideas but if a bunch of time and money, etc. are being used it would be nice to have something approaching a coherent story. I'm not sorry I watched it but I do feel like some 'splainin' needs to be done.
Good synopsis. Saw it just like I did. I've typed way too much about it elsewhere. I wanted to LOVE IT, but I only like it, maybe more admire it. Just lot of open-ended questions that I think should have been answered, which weren't. It had the markings of a CLASSIC, but it had some elements missing that will (probably) not let it be remembered as it should be.
Ikr, when the one guy just layed down and disappeared I was so confused but then I think it just means he had a peaceful death? Maybe of age or suicide? And the women went into space because her wounds were maybe fatal, and that’s how she wanted to die? The timeline is super messy but the whole trip was 18 years, around three- five years into it everyone else died, I think.
And what happens to willow and Robert in the end ??
@@Yoriichi_Tsugikuni___wondering the same thing
The film doesn't know what it wants to be. The idea of the film as a whole is great but it feels underdeveloped, non cohesive and I'm not sure if it classifies as 'art house'. Give it a view.
Thank you. Good synopsis of it. Read what I said above. Agree. It needed more work in some critical points. Instead of an A+ movie, I'm hard-pressed to not give B+ (maybe A-) ... maybe less, because I'm a kind reviewer. To me, it had everything to be a classic. Seriously, everything. Just lost it in the ending, few places that needed narration or audience-assistance in understanding it.
I honestly loved this movie. not many sci-fi films quite like this one. It has a poetry and contemplativeness to it that touched me, especially in the end with the daughter.
I really felt as though i was missing something too. I could see concepts coming out, here and there... But I couldnt grasp the whole thing... And i am usually pretty good at figuring movies out... I kept thinking about it after though... So it wasn't all bad... But i think there are parts missing or something
Tried watching this last night and had to turn it off, got the creepiest vibes from it
I like arthouse movies and I really enjoyed this one. The exposition did bother me and I was kinda confused by the change in narrative structure in the second act as well, but that didn't stop it from being a very engaging experience for me. The way the movie looks and the way in which the events are presented made it very interesting for me, and even though there is a lot of exposition, I appreciated the fact that not everything in the third act was explained. I would give it a 7/10
Just watched this myself and I'm glad I immediately youtubed it. Your review matches how I feel. I gradually became turned off as the movie became more and more sexual. I had to look up if this Claire Denis made those Nymphomaniac and Antichrist erotica movies and turn it off if that was what I was in for
I'm glad I kept going because the "spaghettification" scene amongst many others were worth the full watch-through. Also 7/10
@Thomas Eremia same. It was kind of confusing.. I was trying to thinknof an over arching narrative that would fit the movie as a whole... But i couldnt find one. I am an art house fan as well.. What I did love is that i have been thinking about the movies for days now. I actually like the sexualization aspect alot. It was pretty eclipsing, and very sexy... I may eventually watch it through again. Did you pick up on any narratives that seemed to prevail the whole film?
I feel the stylized aesthetic of the film makes it feel more manufactured and characterized rather than feel immersive. It's too stylish, the color palette seemed to "neon" and artsy for a functional space ship full of prisoners. On top of that the ship itself felt lifeless and hollow, we don't get to see much of it which I think it's essential for a story where the characters are confined to a limited area.
Okay, I know that this video is like a year old, but I have to say that I actually liked the movie, but it feels like for a very specific reason. I personally felt like it was symbolic of the prison system or prison reform. As soon as society puts a label on someone, they are immediately reduced to less than human. The guy who was interviewed on the train admitted that they just wanted to get rid of them when he said it was all a lie and they were never coming back. People on earth think that they can just eliminate those who have been criminalized. Even on the ship, they treat each other terribly. There is no respect for anyone on there except for Monte and his daughter and Monte and Tchemy. That's why there is so much violence and rape; they don't respect each other's boundaries and constantly call each other "scum" and "thugs" not seeing each other as equal human beings. When society labels you has "lesser than" others, as well as yourself and others like you, will also start to believe that, and therefore, you begin to start making yourself fit into that narrative. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. :) I gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars, though, because there were some parts that felt confusing, that maybe if there was just some more backstory could've fixed.
Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth, “and a few other people”. Like bruh, Andre 3000 and Ewan Mitchell are arguably better actors than both Robert and Mia. Robert Pattinson is just good looking in my opinion. He’s an ok actor, but I think his looks are the reason he’s as big as he is. Mia on the other hand is both good looking and an amazing actress so I get why she is acclaimed.
ok i just want to know how home girl died she only got hit once with a tiny shovel and why did the doctor kill herself and how did the brother disappear into the earth, this movie could possibly be turned into a netflx series and have a long life with following each character through his crimes and punishment and dig deep into mental health aspect and dive deeper into the question what makes a criminal is it society or nurture or nature dna or is it just the luck of the draw we need develop the story also from a religious point of view since well u know any ways the move could have used a car chase or at-least a drive by, come on now lets get real here
The whole “science” of this is another thing. It was mentioned that the captain lost his sight to radiation, that’s not actually what causes space blindness. Space blindness is a real thing that can happen to astronauts and we don’t really know what causes it but we think it has something to do with the way the fluid in the eye responds to microgravity. Since they’re under constant thrust, there’s no microgravity and thus they wouldn’t likely have this issue. Also something tells me that if the ship were traveling at the reported speed, they would be flattened against the deck like pancakes.
I think the ship they find is 6 right? I liked that ship too because it really drives home the fact that we're still just sending stuff we dont mind losing into space, and really makes the 7 ship seem pointless.
This movie was just a whole lot of nothing. I lost interest halfway as well, just no interest in the characters at all, so many unnecessary things happened that weren't explained. Just felt like they were trying too hard to be quirky and unique. I'd give it a 3/10. If you want something like this that is waaaaay better I suggest watching Aniara
Where i can watch this movie??!?
I liked the movie but it definitely was over sexualized, and I was completely confused to what happen to the rest of the characters. Maybe I missed something but I really wanted to know what happen. And I kind of wish they went into more of his daughter not knowing as much as she did. Since all she knows is space. And I hated the random ship that came in contact with them. It was a complete waste of time
i agree with this video so much.
guy with a baby, space convicts get violent, awkward sex scenes, weird flashbacks, everybody dies, black hole, all in an agonizing slow pace.
I would never watch a movie based on the opinions of critics. They have their own agendas and recommending something that most people would enjoy... not their priority.
I would have liked a more intelligent analysis of some of the obvious themes in the movie. There is something about the recurrence of dogs (his pet as a child, what he calls the artificial intelligence controlling life support on the ship, and the dogs found on the other spacecraft) there is some message there about what we are as humans at the end of the day. Isn't it strange how the dogs seem perfectly able to perpetuate their species (through SEX, HELLO) and be really comfortable living in that ship forever, only limited by the supply of food? Whereas the humans decrease due to disease and due to opposing wills and personalities leading to fighting. The surviving dogs look like they might have killed other dogs out of hunger, while the humans kill each other out of ANGER, and mental issues etc.
Who is more fit to spread their seed into outer space?
Pee and poo are transformed through recycling into water and food, the prisoners are outcasts that are also to be recycled to produce some hopefully useful result for humanity, a child is produced as a result of injecting biological fluids into the womb, but turns out to look more like the scientist who did the injection than the mother who gave birth to her.
There is so much more to ponder and wonder about in this movie. I give the movie a 10/10, and I give the above "review" a 1/10.
The more pertinent question raised by the dogs is: how did they figure out how to use the rather involved expires-every-24-hours life support system?
The movie isn't really all that intelligent, I don't know why you would expect intelligent analysis of it.
I rate your review of the review of the movie 0/10.
You’re not intelligent
"this movie really isn't for anyone" lol
I mean, for real tho. I hated it.
Dogs in Space? DId these canines commandeer an interstellar PetSmart? This movie is a hot mess. I gave it "2" on IMDB. I think I'll edit it to "1".
how did the dogs enter the code into the computer? Did a dog have a chip in its paw? Why didn't the life support shut down?
Turandot ... Yeah, it had the MAKINGS OF A CLASSIC ... right? But, it lost some cohesiveness in it. I wanted to love it. I'm kind. I saw A+ movie, but it became A-, then B+. And, that's kind. I wanted to love it, and it had everything there at its grasp. But, I think it lost direction / plot / clarity when a few things weren't wrapped up at the end.
@@lutherfoust5483 Yup, I've been asking the same question since I did myself the disservice of watching it.
Also, what's the point of all their "experimentation," if the movie makes it clear that there is no way to relay the results?
The movie is nowhere near as clever as what the more "artistically minded" reviewers out there would lead you to believe.
At least the Denis woman really nailed the bodily waste theme of the film by making a sh!t movie.
@@waltervanlille2263 I watched it twice because I thought I must have missed something important. I didn’t.
wtf is this movie.
@@ryuk5673 - A supreme waste of time mostly.
The ending made you think a lot and create your own story about how the ending ends. 😂
FactSsss
It's basically a Rorschach test which critics can use as a 'fuck box' of their very own to sound intelligent as they expound upon all the deep themes and significance they see in these shallow characters going berserk raping and killing each other...because they're trapped in the cold meaningless vacuum of space, and that's like, existential, and stuff.
Best explanation yet.
Well said.
Notice the Minecraft music in the background
i only watched this for mia goth, i regretted it.
This movie is not disappointing this is depressing. ITS GOOD IN THE DEPRESSING CATEGORY!
It’s not depressing. It’s just bad
How would someone perceive time in a black hole? The time jumps in the narrative of this movie gave me exactly the idea of an uncertain perception of the time. I would like to perceive the unkown of High life in such a way. How would you behave in a spaceship with only convicts in perverse conditions? Sex (rapes or masturbation) scenes were really weird, but artistically unique, and justified in such a context.
I don't think this was a bad movie, and Claire Denis made an amazing job in using sci-fi to sustain philosophical argumentations on the human nature. I really loved this movie.
Call me slow, but I didn’t understand what happened at the end. Could someone explain?
According to the IMDB trivia page, the director said that what happens is Monte and Willow go into the singularity at the center of the black hole and end up in a place where time and space no longer exist, and basically spend eternity together there as father and daughter.
Yehh I know! I just saw it the ending got me confused.
I don’t know if they died or something about the ‘ ending’ was a methaphor
Jim Culver so kinda basically heaven / purgatory
@@jculver1674 thank you bc I was lost and miffed it didn't even explain anything
@@MisstressMourtisha Same as you, MM. I really wanted to know & understand the ending & direction. But, movie lost something toward the end. I wanted to love it, because it had CLASSIC all over it (like Solaris). Just someone got a little tired out during editing and post-production. A few changes, and this would be very memorable.
Why would you be shocked that a ship full of lifers would be engaging in illicit sexual activity? Are you not aware of what happens in prison?
High Life is the strangest porno I've ever seen.
It got me pretty hot and bothered 😋
@@jessicaxhanning2111 really? Yikes.
this movie was incredible yall are basic
Nope.
You can not understand this movie because you can not think deeply, you are bored with this movie because you are boring. Not everyone can understand everything
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. It could be but I watched an interview or two where I guess it apparently took years to make and she didn’t know if it was going to be how she wanted it or if the time had passed for the movie or it’s concept. But I personally think it’s good but in re-production and editing she just went ahead and rushed the wrap up job to get it out, finished and have something to be proud of. Unfortunately I feel like that left the movie too open in some areas and sort of scattered. It felt like they tried to introduce 2, maybe 3 cool plots/messages into the movie but abandoned half way through each plot and went on to the next of the 3. Could’ve been about prison reform, human nature, human rights and morality, shit it could’ve been just a good sci-fi film with a simple and cool story with cool looking cinematography but it’s like they just did alittle of everything
I agree! I would be the target audience for a film like this. I love films like Under The Skin, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, Interstellar, and I also enjoy art house films. But this film was just awkward. The editing, acting, dialogue, plot, and ending are all underwhelming. I really tried to like this film but it’s truly subpar.
The fact that you liked those movies doesn’t mean High Life is made to people like you. Maybe you didn’t catch de approach about taboo and more. The way you said that sounds arrogant to me.
FelipeSM “catch de approach about taboo and more.” What on earth are you on about? I know this film touches on taboo subject matters. That’s fine. That’s not what’s disappointing about this film. It’s just an overall let down. Believe me I really wanted to like this film and even watched it a second time thinking I would find something redeeming about it, but no. It just doesn’t captivate me like it should.
Also. I never said this movie was “made for people like me.” Artists make art for themselves. To express themselves. I however said I would be the target audience. Meaning studios would seek to market this film toward people like me. Because I enjoy similar type films. They wouldn’t be marketing this film to Indonesian children. They would market it to adults that are partial to sci-fi, target audience.
And I don’t care if you find what I said as arrogant. Take it however you want. No sweat off my sack. Keep on truckin’.
Is a art film. Cleire Denis is a cult. That’s all.
Just saw this last night. I was pretty disappointed too. The only thing I felt at the end of the movie was the need to see a movie where Mia Goth doesn't get mutilated. I'd totally forgotten about the professor on the train until this very moment. The stakes just weren't there. I'm also still not sure what happened to Andre Benjamin. This just didn't do it for me :/ Which is sad, because I like Claire Denis.
Andre 3000 just went up in smoke. Also, how did one of the girls die??? Why put people in suits and why not keep the suits for backup parts. Why have an experiment to have babies in space? There way too many questions. How did the dogs live with life supports? The closest blackhole to earth is 4 or 10 light years away.
It was implied that he dies and is buried in the garden. They didn’t show hire he does though.
Well... This is an art movie. Not Marvel one.
Art movies are a different breed. I bought my Blu-Ray.
Oh I didn't realize we started pretentious day already. Give me a minute to grab my favorite art movie to hang over peoples heads and scoff about how they don't get it.
@Rendan Lovell Wait... do we really need our brains to understand an art movie?? XD
I love arthouse movies. This one fucking sucked.
LOL! Money well wasted.
@@RendanLovell No need to lash out at people just because you're a brainlet.
Idk I sorta enjoyed the movie just the concept of it just wasnt explained enough and at the end they went to the event horizon but what happen the same thing as what happened to her mom like the cliffhanger
I feel like slow films with confusing ambiguous ending that just trail off are the fashion. Would it kill them to do a good ending, once in a while? I think we deserve a bit of escapism.
Having everything explained, especially with the vision of the filmmaker herself, would just go against the whole goal and direction of the film. It doesn't need to cater to everyone's needs or desire to understand everything straight away. It's not made to be obvious to everyone. It should't be that at all. The ending only amplifies what the story is trying to say. It's about human connection and existence. To understand yourself more by going out into the universe rather than go in. It's not just artsy for the sake of it, or to conform to some myth about filmmakers doing the arthouse genre for fashion.
@@vin7017 how about just having a few things explained? Rofl.
@@vin7017 I get ambiguity and open endings are a good narrative resource when done correctly, better so than exposition and spoon feeding the audience, but the ending of this film felt very underdeveloped and rushed. We don't even get to experience the father and daughter dynamic between the protagonist and her grown up daughter, unlike the first act. That concept felt like it was dropped halfway through the script and it just felt hollow. No tension, no pulsating human emotion or chemistry between Pattinson and the girl. It just felt the film just wanted to wrap up.
The cast is really excellent in this. And I was pleasantly surprised by several things. The only thing I was missing was a more visceral sense that they had no future. It felt too much like they were going through the motions in a terrestrial prison-no fight or flight instinct. No sense that they might TRY something even if it endangered the whole vessel.
I just finished watching it and... what the actual fuck
what i got out of it, was he wanted to do her... and she wanted to find out whats that about.
His daughter? You’re weird
The movie was so complicated I didn't understand what was going on. Why do modern movies have to be so artsy? Back in the old days I enjoyed movies like True Grit. I understood "Fill your hand you son of a bitch!" completely
You look a lot like Dylan Arnold. That's all I have been thinking about during the first part of the video😅
The disconnect with the storytelling might be because its the directors first English language movie
Well... It was different at least, good late night watch on Netflix if you got bored of conventional scifi.
I watched your full review, and it was spot on. Like you said around 8:00, it had incredible potential. But, I don't think that it was fleshed out enough. I think it needed more rework in script and/or editing. This had the makings of A CLASSIC, but I think it falls short. And, meeh ... yeah like you said -- I think that you did, that it saddens you and saddens me too. I just wanted more from it.
I love the Minecraft music in the background
The few story beats that I didn’t really get was why Mink attacked the Dr., why Boyse killed Nansen, or what led Tcherny to dying. Otherwise, I don’t know how to feel about this movie. Given the nature of the mission, none of the characters were compelling enough to carry the movie. I liked the idea that they were all criminals, but that didn’t really amount to anything.
I’m pretty sure the other ship was a 6 and not a 9. Think about the way they are traveling forward forever. They probably reached the ship sent before them
Watch it again
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@@melburgundy4766 why?
@@vin7017 Not my cup of tea.
WOAH. 5/10 is GENEROUS… (even by your own taste. You do NOT describe this as a 5 lol. You seem to hate it!)
I loved this movie, my favorite of the a24 catalog
This is a good movie to watch if you have insomnia
This movie was actually awesome... in a very disturbing and creepy way. Nothing has been done quite like it.
I agree that it has no real focus, I enjoyed the darkness of it and the idea behind it. Im glad it wasent some over plotted action mess, but It seems it used space and black holes to tell a story that had nothing to do with space. there is no finishing of plot or ideas and no true context or explination of anything
Yep. Undercooked, overexposed.
It's like Sunshine meets Ghosts of the civil dead, but with no commentary at all. At one point I was zoning out as it seemed to wanna touch solaris, 2001, Moon, etc etc but refused to be subtle.
I seriously thought it was gonna go black comedy with how heavy handed the exposition and dialogue was.
Total failure at achieving anything other than some solid acting.
I agree with your entire review. I wanted to like this movie......but it was so horrible that I fast forwarded to the end.
What about it was horrible? It was a rly beautiful film and so many ppl hate it lmao
@@vin7017 dark, miserable, depressing, and no answers...
Let me guess, you hate Light house too ?
Let me guess, you think arthouse try hard movies are all good?
I agree, this movie was all over the place and boring and of course strange. Felt like the film took the form of an abstract painting.
I really loved the movie, seemed a little flat sometimes but I enjoyed it.
This movie was just a confusing mess, the first act with Robert Pattinson and his baby, while slow did seem to be setting up a solid story, what I thought was gonna happen would be that he’s with his baby on the ship, something life threatening starts happening with the ship and now Robert Pattinson has to scramble to fix the problem and save his baby, instead what I got was a confusing, 2001-esc space movie crossed with some weird, artsy space porno, which brings me to that, this movie has very bizarre sexualized moments for seemingly no reason, in particular this 1 just known as the “Fuck Box” It’s like what was the point of all that? And the movie just doesn’t flow well between the 3 points in time at all, I mean by the time the 3rd act starts with his daughter now as a teenager I was like “Wait huh, when did we get here?” And generally speaking I’ve really liked how Robert Pattinson has evolved as an actor but I didn’t really like him here, he’s given good performances in movies like The Batman but here he sounds like he’s channeling a bit of his inner Edward, in other words he’s more stoic and bland in this movie, and lastly the movie has like no real ending, they fly towards the black hole, he’s sees his daughter age a little I guess and then it just ends, like what did they accomplish? Was there even a central conflict in the 3rd act at all? There’s like no answers at all, this movie felt like a decent setup for a sci fi movie that just divulged into a series of scenes depicting strange artistic sexual imagery, to put it plainly I just don’t get it
Is it at least as good as a Black Mirror episode or not even?
Black mirror is my favorite show, interstellar is my favorite movie. THIS MOVIE, however, made me insanely uncomfortable and confused. DONT even waste your time 😭
@@alisa2650 thanks for the reply
Only read a few comments what were you people watching It’s like everyone involved with the movie decided this sucks let’s just end it here If you got something out of it more power 2 U just watched it found it last night before bed was really excited to watch it today WOMP WOMP 🤷♂️☝🏻🚮
didn't have an ending or anything just felt like a suffer reel
For the love of sanity don't watch this movie. It sucked so bad. It was EXTREMELY boring, the acting was horrible and I think I may have a brain tumor now from sitting through the whole movie
Wait... I thought the acting was the only good part
That's the honest review. My head hurts since I finished it.
For once my adhd payed for something I couldn’t get through the first half cuz it was so slow and wasn’t explaining anything.
@@wisco9er536 - That's the weirdest thing. A lot of the people saying the movie was bad but the acting was great?
To me, the movie was bad, and the acting was meh.
90% of the "acting" consisted of actors shuffling around with sullen expressions interspersed with sudden bouts of violence.
I've seen much worse acting, but I wouldn't credit any of these actors as being the next Daniel Day Lewis.
just watched it , idk , there’s a baby , batman’s there idk dude , this movie is a loop
Don’t have the subscription of Amazon prime but I loved how you reviewed this movie from a commoner’s pov , not getting or trying to get deep with it.
How ever confusing it may be;dying to watch it
it was very boring
@@marjavjain6680 you must have the attention span of a toddler
This review is as incoherent as it accuses the movie of being.
Can anyone explain what it was about? From the trailers I was so excited for the movie but after seeing I found it intriguing but had no idea what happened
The movie doesn't really have a specific theme that it's about, but the director said she wanted to explore certain things with it, like the idea of a child being born and raised in space, different aspects of sensuality in space, and the different things that can potentially happen to people when they go into black holes. The plot is basically a clothesline to hang all those different ideas on.
@@jculver1674 Sad, Jim. Could have been a classic, if director had edited it better and reworked some scenes that are plot-essential. I wanted to love it, but now, I just like it (I guess) or more admire it. It's one of those semi GREAT MOVIES GONE BAD ... more GOOD MOVIES LEFT UNDONE (I guess) -- if you let me coin a phrase. Yeah, GMLU ...
they almost had some ideas that would have made it neat to watch but it ended at that point
I agree with many of your points. Which is a shame, because this movie still had some great moments and potential for so much more. It's still enjoyable and a pretty bizarre film.
I dislike when rape of men is played off as not a big deal and rape of women is like a death (which it is). Thanks for the review. Odd film.
I agree it could’ve been such a good movie but it left me looking up the point of the movie
FOR CONTENT CREATORS if you dislike cinematic masterpieces please make better movies, instead of feeding your narcissism by bashing the movie while showing your bland faces
Except this movie was nowhere close to being a "cinematic masterpiece."
So, what's your point?
I still dont understand how willow looks like dibs when boyse was carrying her
I was wondering that myself. She kept calling her "my baby, my baby." I was thinking maybe she fertilized her own egg and implanted it into Boyse, but the procedure was so bootleg I didn't see how that could be. Yet considering how bootleg the entire movie was, especially the "spaceship," that might not be a legitimate criticism.
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I found this movie, pretty disgusting, and it’s a prime example of what makes me so frustrated with Movies these days
Sounds like they had loads of drugs thinking this one up....
I agree. I was highly confused at what was happening and it was all over the place. I liked how another reviewer said it was like the movie was filmed out of order and messy the way time would possibly be in a black hole. I also loved the ending with Monte and his daughter. The middle was the hardest to follow and I also found myself asking why..
I’ll have to go back and watch it again to grasp it better
How was the middle the hardest to follow when it was the only linear part of the movie?
Goddamn, Son, said exactly how I felt about the movie in just your first minute (up to 1:08). I wanted to love this movie. It had the makings of a classic. It had everything there, but I felt lacking at the end. ANd, that's why I am searching for a way to understand it. I watched it and like many of the movie's characteristics (setting, characters, characterization, events, plot, etc.), but instead of having rip-roaring love for it; I find myself struggling with a (maybe) appreciation of it -- that is the better way to say it. Instead of loving it, I am wanting to really like it. It had the A+ possibilities, but I think (to me, and I sadly, tragically, gut-wrenchingly ... because I love sci-fi movies like this) I have to give it a A- or B+. I could have been right up there with the best of the genre, but the ending and cohesion of it -- just didn't do it all for me. The director should have went back in post-production and reworked some things, because I am not having clarity on certain places -- which are key story points, that just weren't clear enough for me. So, that's why I am forcing myself to watch reviewers and see how other perceived it. Sorry, let me continue watching your review, but you got me hooked after 1 minute ... so, I'll see what else you had to say.
Only the ending make me disappointed.
What was the ending. I already forgot
Yeah definitely something was left out or missing... not sure what though, I think the movie mainly conveyed "loneliness, and being in a prison, and then almost showed the point that, it's okay, ti be okay with imprisonment..... lmao IDK
This is one of my favorite movies of all time sorry u hated it
HOW
Same, it's so sad that people dislike it so much. There's so much in it.
Ending was disappointing, I only watched it because of a review on rotten tomatoes. Rotten tomatoes was wrong
8:16 .......did my man say Porpoise?
😂
think the point is nihilism.
i love this movie, it is kinda hed spacey. pattison, and the cast do great job imo.
the flash back and flash forwards in this movie really confused me. i was thinking maybe the baby we see in the beginning is the child of monte and his daughter, who we see later in the film? this movie sucked
What is it with anglo speaking people saying you cant pronounce names and then doing a poor job of trying to pronounce it with an expression of it apparently seeming impossible to pronounce?
I don’t know. Her name is extremely simple and you can find a million videos of people pronouncing it in interviews and things.
Probably the same type of person who would say “I was set to love this movie” and has never seen anything by the director
Hey, don't write off all "anglo speaking" people just because of this imbecile.
The professor scene was what made it so fucked up
I watched High Life yesterday and I agree with everything this guy says, which is kinda strange in itself.
I really wanted to like it, but I also checked out half way thru.
This movie had sooooo much potential and it goes nowhere and achieves nothing of substance IMO.
4/10 :(:(
Waste of great acting talent, clunky dialogue, tonally confusing, visuals are all over the place.
I liked Robert Pattinson and the baby interacting, but that doesnt carry a movie.
I wished I was watching 2001, or Sunshine, or Event Horizon etc.
Just a ln interesting sci fi movie that is actually more than just a bunch of concept.
3 or 4/10 from me
Alien rip-off he says......if you really thought it was just about drifting through space and shit....then A24 movies are not for you my friend......and i dont think A24 movies caters to marvel fans...and nor they ever will
@@mainakbera1207 I love that you assume I like marvel because we disagree. Gate keeping is stupid my boy
@@RendanLovell no no that came out wrong actually.....i know it sounds like i am targeting you to be a shallow marvel fan ...but i wanted to say that in general A24 will not cater to marvel fans.......its about your last comment that this movie has no particular audience ....not for marvel fans.....that is what i wanted to say. Not assuming you to be just a marvel fan. Apologies for my comment earlier.
@@mainakbera1207 oh I gotchu. We good we good
i agree with some of what you said but the two rape scenes i feel were portrayed so differently on purpose. how horrible and familiar the one with mia goth seems because we are used to (for lack of a better term) women going through that exact thing. the doctor raping monte scene was eerily “calm” and i think that’s to show how society views the same crime differently depending on genders. i think the doctor scene should’ve been a bit more obvious of just how evil and creepy that was, the music i would’ve changed but the actress of the doctor did a good job making me want to vomit with how weird she was. the juxtaposition of both scenes speaks to how we treat all victims of rape, and how we treat them differently too. least in my opinion
No, it’s not that deep. The female director just doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with it
Beautiful film about taboo, paternity, instintics, responsability and society.
Rubbish film that touches on all of those themes and says nothing about any of them.
I wanted to love this movie but I was pretty bored
It was empty.
I couldn’t even make it through this one