Sarah Aliahmad

I wanted to love this movie so badly. I went into the theater prepared to cry my eyes out. A post-World War II film about a Hungarian Jew, who survived the Holocaust, trying to make it in America - count me in. The length of the movie for me isn’t the problem. It just had nothing to say, and it was quite pretentious. The drug use and intimate scenes were overdone and the characters were hard to root for at times. Trauma dumping isn’t good story-telling. I really wanted the film to focus on him being the brilliant architect that they kept referencing. And THE scene (everyone who watched this film knows what I’m talking about) is totally uncalled for and came out of left field. Then the dinner confrontation was cringy, awkward, and uncomfortable. I admire Adrian Brody as an actor - he’s part of the reason why I watched this movie, and he really carried this film.