Visitors is the kind of movie that makes me wonder if I am just totally dense or I'm the only one who gets the joke is on us.
This 87 minute film is a plot less series of images mostly of people with a variety of reactions ranging from solemn, to sad to happy to laughing to other reactions. At first its unclear what if anything they are looking at as the images of people are interspersed with images of animals, space, buildings and other things. Eventually it becomes clear they are looking at something perhaps a movie, or pictures or whatever.
As the viewer, we are supposed to take something away from this. Mostly likely the relationship between the increasingly enthralled people on the screen and what they are watching. I prefer to think it is the willingness of us the real audience to sit through anything in the hope that we will get something out of it. I didn't.
I don't know what the director had in mind, but really, how could he not make the same point in 20 minutes rather than force us to waste 90.
Makes sitting through David Lynch's Eraserhead feel painless in comparison.
This 87 minute film is a plot less series of images mostly of people with a variety of reactions ranging from solemn, to sad to happy to laughing to other reactions. At first its unclear what if anything they are looking at as the images of people are interspersed with images of animals, space, buildings and other things. Eventually it becomes clear they are looking at something perhaps a movie, or pictures or whatever.
As the viewer, we are supposed to take something away from this. Mostly likely the relationship between the increasingly enthralled people on the screen and what they are watching. I prefer to think it is the willingness of us the real audience to sit through anything in the hope that we will get something out of it. I didn't.
I don't know what the director had in mind, but really, how could he not make the same point in 20 minutes rather than force us to waste 90.
Makes sitting through David Lynch's Eraserhead feel painless in comparison.