Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

Load of rubbish!!

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Don't waste your time. It goes no where. Kept waiting for something to make sense. Nope. Didn't happen.

Woozy, Dreamy, and Beautifully Shot, this Soggy and Sloggy Melodrama about Life is a Lifeless Contemplation about an Accidental Death that takes a Heavy Toll on those Involved.Heavy, to say the Least. The Burden is Barred by a Struggling Writer, a Mother and Her Surviving Son, and a Women Attached to a Now Detached Writer.This makes for a Movie that makes a Terence Mallick Movie seem High-Voltage. The Screen is Filled with Fallen Faces and Circumstantial Consequences that Manifest as Clinical. The Writer (James Franco) does eventually Move from Under the Guilt and the Mother Makes Art by Contract, but Refuses to call Herself an Artist because of it.Her Surviving Son Carries the Early Life Tragedy with Him through His Teens and is Decidedly Disturbed. The Film Spans more than a Decade and Leaps Two and then Four Years at a time.It's Mostly Mood as the Characters make Their Way through the Muck Mostly Moving in "Slow Motion", Reciting Dialog that is Pedestrian and Rarely Profound or Insightful.It's a Still Life, both Visually and Metaphorically and the Early Accident that Set Things in this Slow Motion now Becomes a Substantial Weight, Carried not only by the Characters Involved, but the Audience as well.Wim Wenders Directs and also Stars Rachel McAdams and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

It just depends from what perspective you look at things. Also if you are able to be rational. And what issues that might bring to you or the people you love. Sometimes being understated can be held against you. Especially if the other person is not sure about your feelings (which you are not showing).Something that probably will not happen to the viewers of this. Because I can imagine that you'll either love or loathe this. Either think it's pretentious and lame (slow of course too) or think it's genius in its depiction of guilt and growing up, being adult and responsible. Also cause and effect and what that means to different people. There is much to be found here. But I doubt many will find it (or even look for it). It's a tough movie overall so both arguments (bad/good movie) have their merits ... it depends on your taste and your mood, which corner you'll pick (acting wise you cannot fault it though)

I do not have any idea why so many critics did not love this film. It had my full attention from the beginning of the first shot.I quickly realized that the film was going to use 3D to (dare I say it) add depth to the cinematography. There are no 3D gimmicks used here, nothing flying at your head or giving you a headache - the 3D effect simply makes the imagery that much richer, much as the careful selection of lenses or film stock or any number of other a cinematographer's tools can do. Every aspect of the camera-work is fantastic (says me with a BA and an MFA in photography).I really found it to be engrossing. There are a lot of individual vignettes that are shown separately, without any real transition between some of them but those are intended to be seen as parallel to one another. Other parts transition chronologically; the whole thing (I thought) flowed beautifully in large part because there were so many threads running through and between the various parts of the film. It's very linear, and yet it sometimes isn't.And - James Franco did not annoy me. (I know, that's terrible of me to say) He often does, but this was a solid, mature performance. All of the performances were quite good, really; and they were built on a very good script. And you can tell that the person who put it all together has seeming effortless mastery of his craft. It's a film that's going to unfold in my head for a while yet. See it big if you can.