In Slovakian film, "The Garden" the joys of idleness are shown in a broader setting of a troubled father/son relationship which is depicted in a variety of poignant scenes. One of these scenes for which viewers might like have a difference of opinion features a hilarious situation wherein the tailor father starts to trouble his flamboyant son while he was busy making love to a lady who also happens to be his father's regular customer. Apart from this troubled episode of things not being well for father/son duo, director Martin Sulik has shown an equally distressed relationship between a carefree young lass and her authoritarian mother. He provides additional lighter moments by showing the irrelevant confrontation between the film's leading man and the cuckolded husband of his lover. The Garden also attempts to include some important philosophical lessons for viewers' intellectual pleasure but fails miserably as Martin Sulik carries out an absolutely bad job of choosing inappropriate actors to portray two great philosophers Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Ludwig Wittgenstein. This is probably the reason why philosophical sentences concerning these two great men would not be retained by viewers for a very long time. Lastly, the division of this film into various chapters also does no good at all as it merely adds up to a boring tale moving at a slow pace.
Review of The Garden
The Garden
(1995)
Slovakian director Martin Sulik makes an ordinary film about idleness.
22 June 2013