The Delinquents
I can usually shrug off negative reviews of things I like pretty easily (although I have a masochistic penchant for seeking them out), but there's something demoralizing about the many variations on "boring/nothing happened/too long" I've seen on here. Firstly because I think this is an incredibly charming and playful movie in which every scene is pleasurable to watch, one of the easiest 3+ hour sits I've had this year - if it's not quite as beguiling as <PERSON>, to make the easiest comparison, it's close and significantly slicker and more accessible. But mostly the complaint grates on me because it's so self-evident that <PERSON>'s subject is not just time, but waiting - waiting for your big break, waiting to be caught, waiting to be released, waiting for retirement, waiting for your alarm to go off, waiting for the bus, waiting on the bus, men asking women to wait for them and women having better things to do... 292
There is no worthwhile version of this that is short or even "normal length" - the meaning is contained in the time it takes to sit with it. This movie was filmed in chunks over the course of four years, with cast members visibly (sometimes dramatically) aging - the waiting is in its bones. Now whether or not that's interesting to you is on you (I think it's one of the more compelling things you can make a movie about, but that's me), but the number of people who've seen this and seem unwilling to engage with the durational aspect in any deeper way than "get to the point"... it fills me with dread lmao. 862