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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Long cuts, fantastic scenes, total lack of dialog, personality, meaning, and plot.Watching this movie is like something you do on your death bed when you have nothing else to do before the last breath.After watching this movie, you will wish you were on your deathbed, if this is the height of cultural attainment by the producer, director, author.Before watching this movie, go watch the concrete outside your home corrode. After a year or two, this movie will grow on you. Until then, not.

Normally I like neorealism or just plain realism type films--films that show real people in a real environment.However this by itself is usually not enough... the main character or characters in these films whether professional actors or not...have to be able to carry the movie. They have to have some ability to show the theme of what the film is about.In this film it would be going back to a place you came from and finding the people cold or indifferent (his mother did not even recognize him).Fine this is a good theme... but the actor in this film does not react in a convincing way to that type situation...so what you end up with is a bunch of real life scenes and faces but nothing else in fact the sailor kind of destroys the film he could be left out and you'd have a better result.

I went to see it bcs is Argentinian, from a region I didn't know. As a tourism ad it works pretty well. I loved the big, fat dark-gray rabbits. The ways and work of these people (assuming that everything show is real) is interesting. There is practically no dialog. It fits the solitude of the landscape, Farrell's incapacity of communicate, the slow motion of the locals living there. It surely leaves an impression but is it good? Not sure. Things I didn't like: Some of the camera "tricks", like not moving from a frontal take, not pan, not showing other people that enter the room and make noise in the background (or the video game screen that begins the movie) are good, but too much of something good is saturating/interfering. It also leaves the impression that the director -cannot/don'want- do it in a different way. In the same way, cutting short some scenes and leaving others longer would have made a more interesting movie. Some other things felt artificial: Farrel's accent and modisms don't match the rest of the characters, which are probably locals, non actors. I've seen absolute non-actors carrying over whole movies, notably in Italian early realism (e.g., "La Terra Trema", "Germania Anno Zero", etc.). This is different. The lines (few) given to these people seem not to belong to them. Like if they had selected the wrong professions or had no rehearsals. Farrel begins and finish conversations with non-chalantly city-like (Buenos Aires-like?) fast modisms of speech that don't seem to match the other's characters speech in pronounciation or speed. He is supposed to be from this same area. In retrospective, considering how little he interacts with his shipmates, it's unbelievable that he had changed his ways of speech by traveling. This separates him from the others, is that the intention? The daughter's non-sequitur, without voice inflections, repetitions of "give me money" made me think at first that she was disable in some way. Maybe she is just stunted-out by the area's living conditions and ennui... or by the screenplay lackings? The mother seems a real case of Alzeihmer; I would have appreciated less realism here, say a 70 instead of a 90 year old non actress. In any case, the dialogs are so trite that even the nonagenary manages. Nothing seems important or everything has the same importance; the movie has no center or care for the details. Even the sheep are not interested in the food, probably artificial grass.

This is one of those films, which gets better in your mind the more you reflect on it.The director before the showing, spoke to us about what he was trying to create, that is a simple piece about a guy's search for meaning.I thought he succeeded really well. The cinematics were bold, but worked to make an emotional impact. For example we see a whole four-minute single shot of our man packing his bag to leave the ship. No dialogue but the superb and understated acting by Nieves Cabrera leaves us in no doubt that this is a man in turmoil and on the cusp of facing his demons.In fact the single shot, no dialogue gambit is deployed a great deal in this film, but it works due to Cabrera and no little contribution from the stunning and unforgiving sub Antarctic scenery.This is a personal journey, brilliantly done by the director and his lead. Thought provoking and real sums Liverpool up for me.