Thursday, September 4, 2008

Shopgirl

3/4 stars

For the first act, I found this to be a boring movie about boring people. By the end I discovered a film that was both beautiful and truthful, and I understood the purpose of the earlier drudgery (a realistic demonstation that the characters lack a genuine connection) but the beginning still didn't sit right with me. Why watch a movie about boring depressed people, when you can watch one about interesting depressed people (like Lost in Translation)? So, a worthwhile story, but loses points as a film.

Written July 22, 2007.

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