Deliberately provocative, lacking emotional core

Godfrey 2022-04-24 07:01:07

It's a good movie that moves people to tears, but it's not the one that evokes tears deliberately. This film has a great idea, using the perspective of a little boy to reflect the scars left by the 9/11 incident in the hearts of Americans. The Oscar nomination also proves that his bad reviews on Metacritics and Rotten Tomatoes are slightly biased, but it's definitely not a classic movie.

Several highlights of the film: 1. About the effect of "8 minutes" on children. 2. Using quick editing, the boy's continuously strengthened tone fully brought out people's fears. 3. The way to deal with the end.

What's bad: 1. The tear gas feels so obvious that a 9/11 side story feels more sad than anything else (I think, poor Brazilian slums and war-torn families in the Middle East are much more tragic than this bourgeois loss Bar). 2. The characterization is not enough. Except for the little boy, other characters are superficial (especially Sandra Bullock's mother image). 3. The boy's perspective is not changed enough. Everyone knows that Dedley likes to use little boys to tell stories (this is the third time he has done so), so the novelty is not enough.

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Extended Reading
  • Jonatan 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    A Paul Austerian New York story.

  • Marcellus 2021-12-14 08:01:15

    Even if you are only 9 years old, you shouldn't shout "I hope you die" to your mother, because your mother is more painful than you. Even if you are mentally ill, you shouldn’t put on a “victim” posture and instead bully your grandfather and expose the pain over and over again. Even if you are only a child, you should not pretend to take advantage of the trust and feelings of others for you.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close quotes

  • Thomas Schell: Well, as with anything, if you want to believe you can find reasons to.

  • Oskar Schell: Can I tell you something I've never told anyone else before?

    Hector Black: HELL NO!