"Doinel, if your paper is first today, it's because I've decided to give the results beginning with the worst."
The movie's plot centers around a young boy who acts up because his parents have ignored him all his life. It may have been a ground-breaking concept in 1959, but in this day and age, I don't feel it's anything new. There are so many cases of this happening in everyday life, and the movie didn't even dig deep into the subject. It was just bland and uninteresting, and I felt like it had no real point or meaning. After reading a couple reviews, I understand why it's critically acclaimed, but it honestly had no effect on me "emotionally".
I didn't care about any of the characters, or what happened to them. Though I probably should have felt bad for neglected Doinel, I never did because I simply wasn't interested in the story.
On the surface, the film seems like it could have been an insightful representation of an awkward teenage adolescent, like the novel Catcher In The Rye, but it sadly wasn't that way at all. Because the movie was never really interesting from the start and I never connected with it, I'm not going to give it a very good score. My immediate rating is a 4.
Characters: 5/10
Acting: 7.5/10
Storyline: 4.7/10
Entertainment Value: 2.4/10
Immediate Rating: 4/10
Total Score: 23.6/50
On the surface, the film seems like it could have been an insightful representation of an awkward teenage adolescent, like the novel Catcher In The Rye, but it sadly wasn't that way at all. Because the movie was never really interesting from the start and I never connected with it, I'm not going to give it a very good score. My immediate rating is a 4.
Characters: 5/10
Acting: 7.5/10
Storyline: 4.7/10
Entertainment Value: 2.4/10
Immediate Rating: 4/10
Total Score: 23.6/50
