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    Puffball

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    "Very bad, forget about it" is what 2/10 means, according to this system, and that's how I feel about this film. I wouldn't recommend it to ANYone but it's not "Worst ever", which is the definition of 1/10. It was terrible, but there's much worse out there. Let me explain: This film was sooo strange... and seemed interminable. There are artificial [sexual content], sped up and slowed down filming that sticks out like a sore thumb, really fake-looking violence, and not very believable accents... to name a few of this film's problems. In many cases it is difficult to understand what connection characters have to one another (this never gets solved), the months and seasons go by with no fluidity or climate change (come on, even Ireland has seasonal changes), and the main character never really confronts the difficulties with which she is faced. Incidentally, Kelly Reilly looks like a fashion model version of Shirley Manson (Garbage's singer) and appears glossed and mascara-ed in every scene, even when she's in muddy overalls and clunky work boots... a rather incongruous and conspicuous look. Sometimes the scenery is good and Reilly and Miranda Richardson are rather talented, though this is a far cry from Richardson's appearance in, say, The Hours. These are the only two good points to this entire experience. A couple in the cinema walked out 2/3 of the way through and usually I would mentally berate them for not giving the film a fair shot but this time... I totally understood. At the end, the remaining four members of the audience (myself included) just sat there in silence, unwilling to admit that there was nothing left to possibly redeem the thing. A real REAL disappointment and strange in all the wrong ways. I imagine the only way to enjoy this film would be to rent it and watch it while drunk with your significant other... maybe.

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    scotcanliz@  3.1.2008 age: 18-25 42 reviews

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