In class we watched parts of this movie (my teacher skipped through to show us parts of this movie he thought were important.) on the one hand, this movie tells an important story and there's a lot of good performances but on the other hand it's not that good of a movie.

Long takes are impressive when they show something but the director clearly thought that the only part that's important is that the shot goes on forever. There are so many scenes and shots in this movie that go on far longer than necessary. If I hadn't been forced to watch it I would probably have stopped watching it because of all the painfully obvious filler. Why does a story like this need to pad the runtime? Why are (not all but several) of the conversations so padded with breaks between lines so long it's almost as if they were going to put a laugh track in. Pacing is super important when it comes to movies and while this movie could've been great it's held back with poor filmmaking.

I'm probably not going to go back and watch the whole thing. Even if there wasn't the annoying pauses I don't really like movies like this anyways.