A Thought of Ecstasy

Usually I start my reviews with a brief summary of the plot. In this case that's not possible, as the movie has no plot. As near as I can discern it's about a German man who is travelling across the US. The remainder seems to consist of random interludes.

Lacking a plot is a distinct drawback in terms of viewer engagement, and you can count me as one of the unengaged.

This movie is random, pointless, pretentious nonsense, basically.

It was intriguing. Yes, it is provocative, exploring sexuality, but it also makes you think and deal with it - deal with the complicated feeling. The story itself without the artistic extras is also interesting.

Not a movie for everyone, I think one should be open to new ideas and opinions to like this movie. Then again, quoting my mother:

"People are fine with watching people killed in movies with their kids, but when it comes to physical intimacy, they feel uncomfortable"

Sadly it's true, yet it can be argued, that every sensible human knows that killing is not okay and maybe they feel that seeing sex or something along the same lines is too intimate for the TV? I don't know and I digress.

If you want to experience something new, watch this movie :)

If you won't make it until the end, that's fine, people have different levels for tolerating things. I myself am 17 and would say I'm rather innocent and it wasn't too much for me - while I was watching this next to my mother on a big screen, I was actually laughing, not feeling bad.

I recommend it to everyone.

I'm not a mechanic, but when a car goes "guh-guh-guh-pffrt" I am capable of determining it is broken.

In that same vain, I am not an actor, but... they're all going guh-guh-guh-pffrt.

I'm 98% sure no AI was involved in this movie, but everybody involved seems to have gone out of their way to warn us what would happen if it was.

The dialogues are especially egregious, which can in part be blamed on RP Kahl's overestimation of his English.

Ordering a cheeseburger with a side of fries at a roadside diner puts far less strain on your linguistic skills than trying to emote and remember your lines.

It also doesn't help that every time I'm forced to look at a close up of the man, I think of that yellow bastard in Sin City.

The actresses don't fare much better, however. Disjointed dialogue and a robotic delivery turns what seems like an attempt at some sort of art into incredulous stares at the screen and a quick look at the clock to see how long I have to watch this before I'm allowed to pass judgment.

With about ten minutes left and nothing but utter confusion to show for it, it's time. And since this film thinks it can be highbrow, I shall do the same: Judgment is unfavorable.

What was this movie even about? Throughout the entire movie I had no idea what was going on. Every scene had me questioning whether the protagonist was hallucinating or having a flashback since it didn't quite mesh with the narration going on. And most of the time that could have been devoted to developing plot was just the guy driving around in his car.

Ecstasy is far from how I would describe this movie. It was slow, confusing, lacked any real intimacy, and ended with a big WTF moment that just makes you feel gross. I hope I burn this film out of my memory.

This film does seem confusing to viewers, and as far as I know the director has not come out to come down to earth regarding the story. If we the viewers spend 90 minutes of our life watching it, the director should at least comment publicly for us so we will not have wasted our time. Towards the end of the film I pieced together a very beautiful yet serious and thoughtful and unforgettable story, a story in which I know who the three women were and what they represented and why they did what they did. I give the film with that story 10 stars. However, that may not be the same story that the director had in mind. In such case, I give the film 1 star for having a clumsy director. Since I don't know, I will go mid-range and give it 5 stars on imdb. Really, the story that appeared in my mind is beautiful and unforgettable. Maybe I should have been the director.