Though it definitely is incomplete and even a little unfair, I very much enjoyed this. This was the exact kind of movie I was looking for tonight, a quiet and slow peaceful movie that doesn’t overstay its welcome. I was into this one right from the start.
Unfortunately, The Wall does get caught up in what it’s trying to say rather than solve its mystery and complete its story. We have a very interesting problem that’s the cause of the entire plot, and it is for the most part left unattended. Leaving things up for interpretation is all fine and dandy but at the end of the day you have a story to tell, and a story to finish. There is no resolution. The ending goes against the rules that have been set up, and it would have been acceptable if we were given any options to piece together how it occurred. But since the film ends abruptly, there is no information that we can gather. We are left with more questions than answers.
We are left with an incomplete story with a very dull character that we still don’t really know much about. We don’t know what she was like outside the wall, we don’t know if she has a family, we don’t know what her job is, we don’t even know her name. It’s hard to get attached to a character when you have no scale to judge how the experiences in the film are changing/have changed them.
The voiceover narration was something I saw a lot of people complaining about, and though it may be a bit too heavy and would have benefited from strictly visual storytelling at times, I do like the narrative style that it took.
So while this does have glaring problems and holes in its storytelling, this film looks beautiful, makes great use of its slow pace, and is effective in pulling the viewer into it’s environment.
Though it definitely is incomplete and even a little unfair, I very much enjoyed this. This was the exact kind of movie I was looking for tonight, a quiet and slow peaceful movie that doesn’t overstay its welcome. I was into this one right from the start.
Unfortunately, The Wall does get caught up in what it’s trying to say rather than solve its mystery and complete its story. We have a very interesting problem that’s the cause of the entire plot, and it is for the most part left unattended. Leaving things up for interpretation is all fine and dandy but at the end of the day you have a story to tell, and a story to finish. There is no resolution. The ending goes against the rules that have been set up, and it would have been acceptable if we were given any options to piece together how it occurred. But since the film ends abruptly, there is no information that we can gather. We are left with more questions than answers.
We are left with an incomplete story with a very dull character that we still don’t really know much about. We don’t know what she was like outside the wall, we don’t know if she has a family, we don’t know what her job is, we don’t even know her name. It’s hard to get attached to a character when you have no scale to judge how the experiences in the film are changing/have changed them.
The voiceover narration was something I saw a lot of people complaining about, and though it may be a bit too heavy and would have benefited from strictly visual storytelling at times, I do like the narrative style that it took.
So while this does have glaring problems and holes in its storytelling, this film looks beautiful, makes great use of its slow pace, and is effective in pulling the viewer into it’s environment.
