Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Sadly Over-hyped

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

a film not about emotions. but an embroidery of emotions. the emotions of a child looking for an answer. an isolated boy in the autism circles. a film about perception . about fear. about insecurity. about the change of a world and the lost of the axis of this world. a personal story who is universal, maybe, for the science to remind old states of each from us. but it is not a story about 9/11. it is not a homage. it is just a precise drawing about a run and the final answer who defines entire search. a boy with a key. in the middle of a huge place. this is all. only emotions. as bricks for a real useful film.

To be fair, I do think that most of the actors did a good job, and that the general plot of this film as well as its camera work, it was all done very well. But the main character, that annoying as hell little boy, he got on my last nerve and his behaviour (which by the way has been chalked up to autism in the film, because I suppose all autistic children must be little monsters who bother people and slap their parents and curse and swear) got on my last nerve every time. I loved the scenes with the various people who he meets on his journey through New York, from a friendly drag queen to a woman going through a messy breakup with her husband, but we hardly get much more than a glimpse into all their lives because the film is so focused on this self-indulgent, bratty and rude little snot of a child who whines repeatedly in narration about what a huge toll 9/11 took on his own life, but who is too focused on himself to see what the disaster did to his mother or to anyone else who lost loved ones when it happened. I think that the doorman (only a minor character) and the grandfather were both certainly some of the most interesting in the story, bringing some comic relief to various scenes, and later on profound sadness in the grandfather's case. 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' is in many ways akin to the 2015 film 'The Rainbow Kid' with its journey of quirky characters met along the way, except that in the case of the latter, the main character was actually likable. I mean this boy in here is so pretentious and nasty and self-centered that it almost had me thinking he'd make a good villain! I felt horrible for his mother and kept wishing under my breath that she'd lock him out of the apartment during one of his little day trips just to teach him a lesson in respect.

My opinion---Extremely loud and incredibly close ... the director Stephen Daldry knew with this beautiful melodrama and following the disappearance of his father during the attacks of the World Trade Center of New York, a year ago, the innocence of the dream of dreams, A child with whom a small object that he will discover will change the perception of his life. And it will lead us into an incredibly deep and emotionally charged adventure. "Tom Hanks" (the father) has played a small role, but his presence always pleases to see, "Sandra Bullock" (the mother), also plays a not very big role, but it always appears brilliant when the way . A magisterial "Max von Sydow", despite his 85 years, still has so much presence on the screen. Then there is this nine-year-old boy Oskar, played by ("Thomas Horn") and the formidable way he interpreted his role, is extraordinary with so much flexibility in his actions and narrowly in his expressions gave The strength to this melodrama. The music of Alexandre Desplat is exceptional and makes even more power to this movie. When I read some of the criticisms, I was really surprised to see some of them being disdained for this wonderful movie, if a tear in a movie is bad, then these people are downright lacking in feelings. Cinema is also there to make us all emotions and it is thanks to these emotions that we move forward in life, without emotion, there is not much left. A wonderful movie that I recommend and review my score at 10/10.

I do not get how anyone can claim this is manipulative, since every movie is filled with "Be Scared Now!" or "Be Sad Now!" musical cues so loud you cannot hear dialog, or is found-footage where every character looks at the camera and says what they are thinking. Filmmakers: show, don't tell! Eric Roth has come a long ways, and I found this to be very well done film and one which solves the big problem of the Big Event (or biography) the right way. Take a small slice out of it (or the aftermath), have some emotional tie, have the protagonist evolve. Keep focus, avoid montage. It works quite well in this regard. Sure, he went on a more or less literal journey so it was a little on the nose there, but it wasn't one we don't all encounter. It's a great way to discuss loss and grief, and in the over-the-top way of dealing with it, lets us understand how we and everyone handles it.