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Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I see some of the negative reviews tend to point on the fact that it is something of a quiet, pretentious art-type film. I have no problems with quiet, pretentious art-type films, so long as, much like any film, they either have something to say or show, are interesting, or otherwise entertaining in some way. This film is none of those.It is very low key and moody. There's very sparse sound going on, with a lot of shots that are almost entirely silent and almost reflective... But it's never clear what it's reflecting on. The implication by the movie is there is something odd going on in a small village apparently made up entirely of women and young boys. At some point the boy protagonist and some of the other boys end up in an incredibly decrepit looking hospital being looked after by nurses who stare wide-eyed and speak very little. This would normally stand out except everyone in this film stares and speaks very little. The boys inexplicably piece together the idea that their mothers are no longer their mothers, and there's a general sense of creepiness and unease all around. But that's pretty much the only thing this movie has going for it; a general sense of creepiness and unease. Little actually happens and little is actually explained throughout it. Stuff happens and it's unclear if its actually happening or if it's part of a dream or hallucination. I tend to really like stories that do not fully resolve a mystery, but here there's so little of everything (characterization, story, pies to the face, dialogue, cinematography, anything) that ultimately I just didn't care about anything or anyone in the movie. It was all a colossal waste of time that didn't even have the decency to be absurdly bad or So Bad Its Good.

Contains THE plot spoiler (not ending or plot parts) The title coupled with the film description gives most of the plot away. I had it figured out a few short minutes into the film which was slow moving and boring. Nicolas (Max Brebant) is one of several boys his age (9-11?) constituting the male population of this French speaking community. All the women are about late 20's and pretty much look and dress alike, wearing their hair straight back in cult-like fashion.The film trudges on as I discovered exactly what I suspected after the first two minutes....and here is your one word PLOT SPOILER...seahorses. This was a Spartan isolated community, yet had computer technology and electricity and my head was about to explode on that aspect. This is an artsy film that didn't make it for me, because I couldn't figure out the message or theme if there was one. And artsy films require either a decent theme or a lot of cleavage for me to like them. This had neither.This is another "emperor has no clothes film." People say they like it simply to look cool and intellectual.Guide: distant nudity....I think. Not one Kip Addotta joke.

Where do I apply to get that 80 minutes of my life back? I don't mind the occasional artsy/high-in-symbolism film but it must at least have a plot line or a message. This has nothing except symbolism which makes it fall apart. The only redeeming thing in this whole mess is the potential talent of the main character of Nicholas.

A little like an abstract painting that refuses to represent recognizable subject matter in favor of expressing a "mood." Contrary to what others here have said, there *is* a story-line. The problem is that the underlying narrative structure is too basic to support so many elaborate, mystifying trappings. It helps to know that the director based the movie on the experience she had when she was 10 and went to a hospital to get her appendix taken out. So given the main character's nightmarish attempt to figure out what's happening to him, we're basically seeing an elaborate series of puzzling visual metaphors for the director's disorienting personal experience as a child in hospital. This movie isn't hiding anything or failing to be coherent. It just wants to be a darkly evocative visual collage instead of a straight-up narrative. Accordingly, it's rewardingly rich visually, but it's like a poem that sounds great but doesn't involve you in anything really important. All of the many unanswered questions it raises make it hard to let the visuals just wash over you.In other words, behind all the evocative, disturbing imagery (again "unsettling" is the best word) it's *just* a retelling of a personal experience; there isn't a deeper message than "fear of the unknown." For me that wasn't enough. The mood is conveyed. The story is told. It's just not terribly profound.