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Originally Posted by ckissick
Nominated for 10 Oscars. Won Golden Globe for best pic. (I think). The wife and I tried to watch it. Nothing happened. We gave it an hour then switched to something else. The most suspenseful part of the movie was wondering when the maid would clean up all the dog poo. It was so boring!
So why all the accolades? What am I missing?
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It did take over an hour for something to happen, even then whatever happened was also boring. So it pretty much doesn’t stand up to, say Close Encounters or Schindler’s list.
But that’s not the kind of movie it is, either. A B&W photo of a mountain is pretty boring compared to a color photo of, well, just about anything. That’s not the point of the B&W photo.
Roma is an expression of a time the writer or director or whatever personally experienced against a backdrop of far greater things happening in the world.
I found allota love, anger, sadness, frailty and other things not easily expressed in a slow-moving, almost motionless B&W, boring as hell movie not in English.
As a piece of cinematic art it’s great, hardly any explosions, no colorful eviscerations and pretty normal-looking everyday people living their lives.