free thinking film for free thinking viewers
Added 9/15/2009
Well...I liked it. You wont see Spielberg or any of the other "great" filmmakers take on such a difficult subject without making it a maudlin melodrama. Very good script writing and directing (after all most of these people in the film are not polished professional actors). This movie will make you have a talk with your kids, at least it should. But what I enjoyed mostly about the film is that is amoral. All the players are realistically represented. Watch for yourself if you like movies that don't hold your hand as you watch it.
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Probably the weirdest movie I've ever seen
Added 8/28/2009
This movie wasn't good, nor was it bad. I actually had no idea how many stars to give it so I rated it somewhere in the middle. This movie is only watchable because I've never seen a movie like it. It wasn't exactly offensive or shocking to me, except the scenes where a grown man has sex with a child. What bothered me throughout the movie is how in the sex scenes, each girl is completely emotionless like nothing is even happening. Not a sound, not a movement, no facial expression....you can say "blah blah shes desensitized to the situation and cold inside", but come on, so unrealistic. And it was painful to watch a CLEARLY 30-something year old actress (the obese black one) try to act 12 years old. I enjoyed the scenes where the hitman kills that abortionist, it seemed really believable to me how freaked out he was....good acting in that scene. I REALLY disliked that little black girl in the beginning and ending of the film...yeah, shes cute, but can she talk anymore robotic? Like she is reading from cue cards, and why can't she keep her weird tongue in her mouth while she talks? It's creepy. This movie isn't very interesting or filled with much emotion, but I wanted to see what would happen next. I would recommend seeing it only because I'm sure you've never seen a movie like it.
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Not his best work
Added 12/8/2008
This was a hard movie for me to review. . .
I am a big fan of Todd Solondz and I am only giving this movie three stars instead of two because it is him.
Well, first off, I was under the impression that this was to be a take off of Welcome to the Dollhouse. Other than mentioning some of the characters and some cameos (although, Mark has a fairly sizable role)there is not much resemblance.
I did watch the movie twice just to see if I was "missing something". It was a little bit better the second time I watched it. The first time it was really hard to wrap my mind around the concept of the character shifts. Once I figured out thats what they were doing, I watched it again keeping that in mind and it was easier to follow. I will not argue with the reviews that says it is "powerful". It was a powerful piece that dealt with rough subject matter. It had very good acting for the most part. I did love Mama Sunshine and Dr. Dan (I think he is the jump to conclusions guy in office space)
I really like the non mainstream movies that make you think and I wanted to love this movie, but it just didn't do it for me.
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Added 6/26/2008
It might be beneficial to read the whole wiki plot summary before watching Palindromes for two reasons; some vital plot points which i have no idea how anyone even figured out and so you can not be distracted so much by the shock tactics which even involve the recent horror movie convention of the post-production enhanced impossibly loud bang to make you jump. If you've been wondering about the writer/director's intent with his previous films there's nothing here to clarify anything and a few of the expected "oh my god why would you want to film that" moments. It's still tempting to write it all off as shock value or nihilism but there's still an anthropological inquisitiveness fueling it however hard that may be to reconcile with how unexplored the characters motives remain in spite of their extreme actions. Maybe that's the intent, to have characters act extreme with little or no explanation and yet get a sympathetic response from an audience. The Dr Dan song was pretty awesome, like something out of Tim And Eric Awesome Show Great Job. I remain agnostic on the question of wtf is Todd Solondz's problem but as long as he keeps producing cultural artifacts like this one i'll keep asking.
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saturated in happiness
Added 5/20/2008
THE DIRECTOR IS A GENIUS ,THE PERFORMANCES ARE UNIVERSALLY BRILLIANT ,THE SCRIPT HAS BEEN WORKED AND PERFECTED LIKE A FRAGILE PIECE OF MURANO GLASS OR THE CUTTING BLADE OF A FINE STILETTO I ONLY WISH MR SOLONDZ KNEW I WAS ALIVE SO HE COULD HEAR MY DELIGHT EACH TIME I WATCH ONE OF HIS FILMS.
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