This move was pure agony to watch and totally devoid of any redeeming entertainment value at all. The endless scenes of extreme child abuse, masturbation and bestiality made this an experience that will scare me for life. A root canal would be preferable entertainment. Anyone who enjoys this movie has to be sick.
My expectation was a story about a boy overcoming child abuse to become a successful writer. Only about 10 minutes is spent on the `overcoming' with the rest of the time obsessed on the agony. This could have been a great movie if it focused on the metamorphosis of an abused, illiterate Shepard into a literate professor and writer.
My personal regret is that I fell for the `Cannes Golden Palm' label again. `Art is in the eye of the beholder' and this beholder sees very little artistic value in this movie. This movie had awful sound, poor cinematography, bad set decoration and horrible musical score. It is hard to imagine this movie being better than some of the other movies of this year like Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Equus, The Goodbye Girl and Annie Hall. Cannes went way out of the way to avoid a good movie for their award. My observation is that Cannes is a bunch of snobs who never give anything to any movie that can be remotely called entertaining.
My expectation was a story about a boy overcoming child abuse to become a successful writer. Only about 10 minutes is spent on the `overcoming' with the rest of the time obsessed on the agony. This could have been a great movie if it focused on the metamorphosis of an abused, illiterate Shepard into a literate professor and writer.
My personal regret is that I fell for the `Cannes Golden Palm' label again. `Art is in the eye of the beholder' and this beholder sees very little artistic value in this movie. This movie had awful sound, poor cinematography, bad set decoration and horrible musical score. It is hard to imagine this movie being better than some of the other movies of this year like Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Equus, The Goodbye Girl and Annie Hall. Cannes went way out of the way to avoid a good movie for their award. My observation is that Cannes is a bunch of snobs who never give anything to any movie that can be remotely called entertaining.