Review of Enys Men

Enys Men (2022)
7/10
1 star reviews versus this movie: which are more pretentious?
9 May 2023
Do people have a kink for watching a movie, not understanding it then going online to give it 1 star and say "I didn't understand it"?

It's a movie about a woman going crazy due to loneliness. What else do you need? A "wiki how" article?

Being serious now, this is a good piece of experimental cinema. Very well shot and the 16mm aesthethic is all there. Sound design is great and eerie, and the themes do play out nicely. We meet her, know how her work / daily life goes and see herself slowly getting affected by the loneliness when she is "visited" by ghostly manifestations of stuff she read or heard or lived before, like the dead fisherman, and earlier version of herself going through a traumatic event and even a bunch of nuns she saw in a dryed milk label. A strange monolith or gravestone becomes spooky, the bald dude is probably a ghost and the flowers are turning into mold and mold grows in dead things (see? Spooky)

There isn't much to say or hate here. The film is tremenduously repetitve but that's absolutely necessary to understand her condition. It does have some shots that I think confuse you more than help you understand it, and I'm lost on what the rock being throwing down the well even means. All in all, again, a good piece of experimental filmmaking.

I'm giving it 7 because I took one star out for each time I burst into sleep while watching.
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