Disco

This Norwegian offering has only confirmed my conviction that all churches, religious societies and sects are some the greatest sources of evil that have plagued mankind since time immemorial. I'm an atheist, which means I don't believe in the existence of a god or an omnipotent creator. However, I have nothing against anyone with faith, as long as it helps them on their journey through life and, most importantly, as long as they don’t impose it on others. The strong whiff of bigotry I feel here gives me the creeps. The subject matter is not bad, but the way it is handled is strange to say the least. The director Jorunn Myklebust Syversen crammed too many themes into an hour and a half, most of which she did not manage to put across fully, but only skimmed lightly over the surface. Most of the footage was taken up by religious issues that make me want to vomit. (45%) (16.03.2023)

Ouch, that was one hell of a painful spectacle. The film is a parade of Christian bigotry, dancing and shallow dialogue with no informational value. I feel like 90% of what was said in the movie were Christian "motivational" speeches that neither moved the story along nor said anything about the plot or characters. I'd shove a book on cinematic speech into the director's hands, and a book on shot and framing into the cinematographer's hands, because the film is absolutely awful from a visual and technical standpoint. I couldn't understand the spoken word, but could decipher what the characters around me were saying rather than the main dialogue. By the end, I don't even really know what the film is about. About dancing? About religion? About finding yourself? About growing up? I really don't know. I skipped the last 15 minutes because I really didn't have the energy anymore. This film is really bad and doesn't respect a single rule of drama construction or cinematic language. (15.02.2022)