Cynical-SJ

Honestly, this film as an locked room drama was a bit not what I wanted and it was just a bit one note, but Stanley tucci is great with the performance as a gilted lover who is on the funny side, but has an undertone of violence that keeps boiling over at times. So, it might be a bit hard for the audience to watch over the drama unfolding and the information being drip feeding the information about the characters to the audience to keep interest and it might get boring after a while, and there isn't much variety in the shot composition or the acting performances to add to it, which reminds me of "Sanctuary" where the both leads in similar circumstances eats the scene up which is complimented by the directors camera choices.

The film Minamata tries to be a much better film than it wanted to, the film is great visually and Johnny depp is good as the main character, Eugene Smith but there didn't seem to be any nuance or development and understanding it was needed. The story felt cut and dry at times, some characters just felt a bit predictable and forced dialogues, the film just tries too much to be a environmental film while trying to dissect Eugene smiths character and trying to give him a struggle of addiction and age with trying to him overcoming it as a matter of fact no matter what happens, but it is an well shot and needed story that was told in a good way, but overall not something I loved but wanted to love it.