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Title: Uninteresting one-dimensional characters, interesting art
Review: I have seen several films about Van Gogh, all which were fascinating. In each Van Gogh was a character that was portrayed in a manner that was human and who had ideas and humanity as well as a need to do art. By contrast, Harris' Pollock lacked any humanity, except for one scene where he takes a dog to a vet. And Pollock didn't seem to be someone who thought about life at all. He hardly cared about anyone and in the whole movie connected with no one with the exception of his wife, and that was far more a practical relationship than a love relationship. His wife Lee was portrayed as a generally uninteresting person as well. I was not drawn in by the film at all by any of the main characters. Pollock's gift to the world was his art; who he was and the life he lived were not worth making a movie of if this is the best the story can be told in film.
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