Gerry (2002)

Film Perfection

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

One word sums up this movie - BORING! The opening tells you right there and then what to expect, that everything will be such a drag from thereon. It gives you this anxious feeling which is not one bit ok. The plot is flat and terrible. I will remember this movie as one the worst I've seen.

To say that "Gerry" is merely a "slow" movie is an extreme understatement. The film is INCREDIBLY slow!!! At times, it is genuinely boring, but it also is an interesting piece of art."Gerry" tells the story of two mean named Gerry who get lost in a desert with no food or water. Originally, they were walking to a place simply referred to as "the thing", but they never reach it. Instead they walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and they also briefly run and walk and walk walk (in short: there's a lot of walking), until the tragic conclusion.Technically, the film isn't JUST the two guys getting lost and walking around in silence, if it was, it probably wouldn't have watched much more than 5 minutes of it. There is, indeed, dialogue which includes some brief discussion about video games and "Jeopardy!" There's also a suspenseful sequence in which one of the Gerry's has to jump off a really high rock. But, as the film continues, and the characters get more and more lost...they do less and less. They just slowly walk-and eventually they are hopeless. They're made to last so long with no food or water that they eventually don't have the strength to even utter a simple sentence. In the end, "Gerry" is a sad film that probably captures getting lost in a desert far better and more realistically than any other film ever made."Gerry" has some legitimate power, and the ending nearly moved me to tears. It really shows how horrifying the situation is in a hypnotic manner.But I will not deny that I really wanted to doze off during a few points throughout the film. While the amount of aimless walking adds to the tragedy and realism, Gus Van Sant easily could have cut out at least 10-20 minutes of the waling footage and the film would be just as powerful and good.Because it has such a slow pace, it's extremely easy to make fun of "Gerry" and call it "pretentious". It's definitely not the type of movie your average moviegoer will be willing to sit through. I cannot come up with many people I know that will want to watch a movie because it accurately portrays getting lost in a desert. I mean, sometimes it feels boring on purpose!

This is one of the slowest movies I've seen in a while.One way to describe the majority of the long and still takes is to say that they are basically photographs but with slights signs of movement - which makes it beautiful to look at for such a long while.At the end of the movie, I came to the conclusion that its purpose was to make the viewer an merely observer of the landscape but not in a submissive way, since we are the ones responsible to add some meanings to this reticent plot.(I also thought that the scenes were so lethargic that it was almost like playing backwards... Which gave me the idea of watching it again fast-rewinding the hole movie. Haven't done it yet, but probably will see some interesting results, who knows.)

I really like this movie, but can understand if other people don't. It's a one of a kind in which dialog slowly disintegrates into simply surviving. The set-up is super-simple: two friends get lost in a harsh desert climate while sightseeing. At first this is cause for amusement, but slowly it dawns on both of them (Casey Affleck & Matt Damon) that they are in dire trouble.At times, the viewer can be forgiven for being a bit restless. One scene, for example, follows the two actors as they walk across a barren landscape as the sun rises. The scene lasts a really long time; long enough to go from night to dawn. Hate that if you will, where else has that ever been done? The movie's ending seems a bit forced, but by then I was fully satisfied that an interesting tale had been woven.