Eduardo Kruger

Maybe I'm too dumb, but I couldn't really get it! What is the message in this utterly confusing movie??? It is very difficult to identify with any of the characters as each of them is really impossible to figure out. The disregard of the disfigurement of the two main characters (Edward and the very annoying, full-of-himself Oswald) by the people they interact with in most parts of the movie is left unexplained as though society is so inclusive that no one bothers to ask questions or to show any reaction to that. The only person who makes a comment in this regard is a personal trainer who winds up dead. The characters who are disfigured also don't show any trauma or real sorrow about their condition. The directors should watch the real drama of living with disfigurement in The Elephant Man or in Mask! I see this movie as one of those artsy things produced by A24 that doesn't tell anything right. Maxxxine by the way was another masterpiece by this group that didn't really add up. A product of our highly disfigured and irrational society. Feel sorry for what cinema is becoming these days... I am with one of my fellow reviewers who think they are paying people to write positive reviews to bad movies!

OK, good acting, fine film-making and all. But after 3 hours building up the stage for a grand finale, ... there is no grand finale! Scorcese chose to present a horrendous vaudeville where the fate of each character is told by an different presenter (including the director himself). In the 1970s, a bunch of movies finished with a few lines telling the summarized story of what happend to the main characters. The vaudeville bit did the same instead of presenting a decent ending to such a long and tiresome film. With the vaudeville act, it became simply annoying!