I Believe in Unicorns

11/06/15

3/4

This movie was extremely beautiful in some respects. It was very short (1:18), and my experience had big cuts in it, so I almost feel like this didn't even happen. What I can recall is a strong sense of beauty along with a strong distaste for the adolescent relationship. The lead girl was very beautiful (I feel comfortable saying this because I see her as a child) and was acted extraordinarily. The male was also well-acted, but was an intensely repellant character for me. This dichotomy created a lot of tension inside of me as I watched, and so at times this viewing was difficult.

Quickly after it started and we began to see the relationship I debated stopping, because I saw that this relationship was extremely unattractive to me. But then I wondered if, since they are young and new, the filmmakers intended for this unattractiveness, and the characters will grow into something more valuable. So I continued. In some ways this did happen, although the characters I wanted to connect with so badly mostly remained in a distant place of youth. Youth is a place I cannot possibly connect with anymore. So I was very emotionally disconnected, and at times upset by this.

It is worth analyzing why I discounted this film so quickly for showing a relationship I didn't like. I assumed that the filmmakers were portraying something they thought was beautiful, and thus it was a flaw of the movie that it wasn't beautiful. 1: beauty is subjective, 2: they don't have to portray an attractive relationship to make a good movie. They could be saying something else.

11/13/15

I Believe in Unicorns was a decent movie, but the primary aspect of my experience was inescapably personal, and thus a full review is insensible. However, my opinion is that this is a decent movie, and there's really nothing else to say about it. It doesn't try to do anything, other than depict a relationship that a given viewer may like or dislike. There's no more to it. An intense aesthetic that a given fewer may like or dislike.... There is no "good movie / bad movie". It's just a film, to be experienced personally. To empassion. It empassioned me. It empassioned me....