First, it was smelly and long, over 3 hours, full of boring, dull, and messy people and things.
Second, the performance was collectively exaggerated. I don't know if it was the director's request. The big and small actors in it all used excessively hard constipation performances, and they always looked painful and tangled, or hysterical.
Third, the lines are long and verbose. For example, the TV host told his daughter that he had cancer, and it took a long time for him to enter the topic.
Fourth, forcibly coincidence, forcibly connecting multiple lines together, a quiz show, how many stories are the protagonists watching? How many people are singing a pop song that I don’t know?
Fifth, after reading the beginning, I thought that some of the story lines would eventually have amazing and ingenious associations, which made people astounding. As a result, the director used a rain of frogs to prevaricate the past. After a few stories are finished, they are still so mediocre, there is no place to shine! And there is absolutely no cleverness in the story layout.
The excitement of group dramas lies in the interweaving of characters and plots, and group dramas are played well, often based on excellent plots.
However, group dramas also have their weaknesses, which are that the characters come out alone and don't have enough accumulation. Everyone knows the truth. In ordinary movies, the protagonist has gone through a story for an hour and a half, and accumulated enough, the audience will naturally be able to devote themselves to emotions. Although the film is three hours long, it has too many lines and poor storytelling, and it always shows some painful and tangled content. The little scene assigned to each protagonist can give people thoughts and touches. What metaphors are not metaphors? Just put together a few people who are suffering and entangled together, and that's it? Just sublimated? "Redemption"?
Simply put, the beginning of the film is fascinating, and the end is fascinating. Both are not bad. Nearly three hours in the middle, it is a pile of shit piled together, which is unsmelling!
Except for the literary and artistic youth who hate commercial films and like to take the connotation of niche films, I can't think of anyone who would like this kind of junk films.
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