I discovered this film after looking at director Lukas Moodysson filmography. I had been recommended his film Lilya 4 Ever. I watched and was impressed. That film is about a 16 year old girl in a former Soviet area that needed to prostitute herself to survive. That film was very bleak and realistic. It was unflinching and though to sit through but it was compelling and even poignant. I was so impressed that I wanted to see other films by this director.
A Hole in My Heart caused a completely different reaction in me. It was one of the most unpleasant, incoherent, dull films I have ever seen. It is about 4 people in an apartment that make porno movies. A woman, and 2 guys male the porn, and the 4th is the son of one of them and wears black and ruminates about how life sucks. That's it. The film is supposed to be very realistic and I guess wants to comment on how these people are somehow broken and porn is their way of expressing their pain. Very deep. Gimme a break. The film is full of sexual imagery, disgusting behavior by its characters that suddenly start telling their stories to.the camera. I am.not offended by sexual, violent or even highly disturbing imagery. But when it's done as a gimmick to illicit just shock I am.not impressed. Lukas Moodysson wants to say something with this I am sure but just because he wants to make a point about porn and how many people that see it and film it are somehow wounded just throwing shocking images and dull quasi intellectual psychological babble at his audience doesn't a good movie make. He is successful in purposely putting off the viewer So?
Pathetic.
Grade: F
A Hole in My Heart caused a completely different reaction in me. It was one of the most unpleasant, incoherent, dull films I have ever seen. It is about 4 people in an apartment that make porno movies. A woman, and 2 guys male the porn, and the 4th is the son of one of them and wears black and ruminates about how life sucks. That's it. The film is supposed to be very realistic and I guess wants to comment on how these people are somehow broken and porn is their way of expressing their pain. Very deep. Gimme a break. The film is full of sexual imagery, disgusting behavior by its characters that suddenly start telling their stories to.the camera. I am.not offended by sexual, violent or even highly disturbing imagery. But when it's done as a gimmick to illicit just shock I am.not impressed. Lukas Moodysson wants to say something with this I am sure but just because he wants to make a point about porn and how many people that see it and film it are somehow wounded just throwing shocking images and dull quasi intellectual psychological babble at his audience doesn't a good movie make. He is successful in purposely putting off the viewer So?
Pathetic.
Grade: F