O Advogado

I watched this movie without knowing anything about it, picking it just because of my favorite actor on the poster. The opening scenes in this movie of friends having dinner were very enjoyable and promising, but sadly it got horribly worse from there. The script is very dull and too theatrical for a movie. I was also not impressed with kind of amature directing that made everything look/feel artificial. Most conversations end up with one character saying something and staring at the horizon and another walking away as if something dramatic of meaningful was said. Even when conversation takes place in a room, where there is no horizon and no reason or place to walk away. A use of red light in romantic scenes felt artificial because of trying to explain every time the "accidental" source of it (like neon commercials outside). These and other similar details left a feeling that you're watching a student made movie. This movie has everything to be great: good topic, wonderful cast, very well picked filming locations, superb musical score. But the script and directing make it a really really bad one.

I highly recomend! Even though I personally could not recognise a strong central point, but there were many interesting aspects and juxtapositions of a great value In this film. It was a warm film with closely observable and felt feelings and emotions. Sincere.

A lot of unnecessary characters. Plot is messy, there is no growth of main characters. Plot goes too fast because of that their actions looks random, without meaning. All LGBTQ and refugees problems are just lightly mention, without showing deeper view. Really you can describe film's plot by this sentence: Sugar Daddy wants to have a boy from Syria...

This movie has many visually beautiful views and also touches several aspects: feelings of a lonely person, self/society identity problems, etc. Of course, most of all praise deserves the main star Eimutis. He turned out to be diverse,flexible and sensitive actor. Unfortunately, the dialogues were quite poor and banal. This movie itself had lack of consistency and depth, feels like some characters play unnecessary roles.

I admit there's always some sort of cultural disconnect when watching a foreign movie, but something about this movie felt so wrong.

A lot of redundancy and incoherent characters only help worsen the story that already suffers from the writer plague of finding a solution to a problem that millions of people are struggling with. The dialogues are meant to go deep but just fall very short of achieving that purpose and instead sound unnatural and broken, and the director seems to have a very superficial approach to storytelling that highlights every other issue.

I'm sorry to say it felt like a drag at points where I had to skip some scenes, so overall, just a mediocre watching experience. Such a shame of wasted potential.