The Square (2017)
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
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Perfect cast and a good story
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Fantastic!
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Stage Setting: I'm an American. This movie is 2 1/2 hours long. It is esoteric. It is Scandinavian. American viewers, beware of any Scandinavian movie that is 2 1/2 hours long, that has, as it's synopsis, the word "existential". Scandinavian, 2 1/2 hours long, "existential" - those three values are a guarantee of a supremely boring movie. Having said that, I understand the very true and importnt message of the movie. Limousine liberals often learn the hard way, that it is harder to actually be an ethical liberal, than it is to simply act the part. Great message. However, comma, the way this Message is told, it Is more suited to an ethics class at University; not an expensive seat at a movie theater.
The square touches upon so many aspects of contemporary life - is a hilarious satire of the world of modern art & critics; of political correctedness, diversity & societal inclusion; of public trust and moral dilemmas; of power dynamics in the office; of millennials, social media and viral digital media; of love, gender and parenthood. If you expect a straight storyline, you will be disappointed; the narrative is as inconsistent and fragmented as the human psyche and the societal aspects which it brushes in an unpretentious manner. The highly renowned and controversial dinner scene is perhaps one of the bravest experiments in the genre, and is, undoubtedly, the highlight of the movie. The Square may be considered satirical, bizarre, and hilarious at times - but it would be to misleading to call it a comedy. In fact, any attempt to bracket it within a particular genre would be a mistake. Not only it is not an artsy movie, but on the contrary, it is a superb mockery of elitist art.
'The Square' is visually beautiful, well acted not so subtle (I mean, all is seen on the surface and it doesn't go deeper) satire on modern art and modern society with its political correctness and freedom of expression. Although the modern art is very easy target for parody and satire, 'The Square' does not fall into banal mockery of subject and touches the matter quite briefly. I mean, there are not too many puns towards the art scene. The film concerns more about other, and more serious subjects that definitely needs the discussion - political correctness, freedom of speech and creativity, how far we must go with tolerance, the hypocrisy about the care for weaker ones. All important themes, but the film played too safe too many times. The humor (or satire) could have been darker and sharper. More edgy! Pacing was little bit uneven and the film seemed to drag its feet for the last 35 minutes.
Someone got disappointed with IMDB community for rating this movie above 1. How about developing a healthy respect for people whose opinions differ from our own? When we do not understand someone's perspective often times what they say sometimes sounds a bit 'bizarre' to us. A person interprets things according to individual perspective, biases and sensitivities. So, except of couple of scenes, which I "didn't get", I enjoyed watching this movie.