JMF430

Even though it wasn't exactly my type of movie, there is nothing for me to complain about in it. There's one major event, but the movie never acts as if it's a big deal, and the rest of the duration is the characters reacting to it. In real life people don't overreact to most things, and in that sense, it's realistic. That also is because neither the protagonist nor the antagonist are bad people. Just regular ones who have a very shitty situation happen to them. Thought it never seems shitty, because everything is taken with calm. You might even think that they don't even care about it.

The acting is well done. You might think you are watching real people. The cinematography is extremely good, some shots are framed in a way that you don't know what the characters are intending to do, and that generates a lot of tension.

One review here says that the movie is predictable. Well, life can be very predictable sometimes. And that predictability makes you even more anxious, because you know something is coming and you won't be able to do anything about it.

Overall, I give it the movie a 7/10, but for some people it might even be an 8/10.

I expected this to be a "parasite-type" movie, where class struggles are portrayed in a dark comedy way. It actually was just a dark comedy, not very determined to make fun of society, just whacky situations. There wasn't much tension, as no character ever semt to be in danger, you always knew that nothing was gonna happen to them. Even if the never is any tension, at least the comedy parts are funny. Right? No. The dad in the movie always had the same things to say, i guess it can be funny at first, but then it becomes tedious. The gay character could be funny, but he didn't get much lines. The mother character was always serious, never acted crazy, so no way she could be funny. The criminal character was supposed to be threatening I guess, so he couldn't be allowed to be too funny.

In the end, the movie should have been a lot more exaggerated if it wanted to be funny. But the acting was too toned down.

I don't like movies where a bland guy gets the girl just for the fact that he is the protagonist. The one in this movie is not funny, charming, mysterious, benevolent, he doesn't have an attractive face or frame... yet all the women in the movie want to sleep with him. Then some personal problems of his love interest come up, yet I never cared. The only times during this movie in which I had fun were when the villian appeared. At one point it seemed like this movie was trying to make you hate rich people (all the characters on the side of the protagonist were rich), but it was just my imagination.

In the end, I never felt anything for the characters. But that's just me.