Hurt

The torture was mine, as I struggling to make it past the 1 hour mark without slipping into a coma. I finally gave up at 1:02. The pain was in watching each dreadfully boring scene linger... and linger... and linger. The misery was in realizing I had paid $5 to bore myself to the point of tears. But, if you really want to know the details so you don't think I'm just unfairly taking out my frustrations on this film by throwing vague insults...

The direction moved at a snails pace, or slower. And I wish I was exaggerating, but I am not. The dialogue was minimal and delivered with a total lack of enthusiasm by any of the actors. The camera work made things even worse. Long, slow still shots from weird angles or perspectives. There was no action, no character development, no witty dialogue, no suspense, nothing to make you care about anyone or anything in the film. Maybe something happens at the very end, I'll never know.

And, lastly, I understand this is a low budget film. I actually like low budget, independent films. But the problems in this movie had little to do with the budget. It really seemed like an intentional, stylistic choice. And that choice was a bad one.

This movie was excruciatingly painful to sit through. Seriously, honestly, very cringeworthy. It had the potential to be really good, but failed to live up to that potential. The first thirty minutes weren't too bad. It was a good premise, but after the first thirty minutes, the storyline went downhill really fast. The rest of the movie was just the lead character Rose over acting and running around crying and hyperventilating. I've seen a lot of pretty bad movies, and after watching this one, I would gladly watch any of the other terrible movies I've seen again, before I ever watch this one again.

I felt like I was the one tied up in barbed wire just watching this flop. 90% crying from the main character, no one was likable and everything hurts just watching it. Flop flop flop.

Tip: for any Gravitas Ventures movie you have about a 10% chance that you'll make it through the whole film. Interestingly each GV movie is terrible in its own special way. This particular movie has slow lingering scenes that are meant to be artsy but actually just cover up the fact that this movie is completely dumb and worthless.

Don't waste your time on this movie. Very slow. Very boring. Long quiet camera shots of nothing. Wish I had chosen a different movie to see, this one is not it.