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Title: Long day's journey into trite
Review: There are so many wonderful slow-paced movies out there, why waste your time on this one. An old man has no friends other than his dead wife. On what he thinks is his last day on the planet, he mopes about, reminiscing. Even the injection of a troubled boy takes too long to have much effect on Mr. Morosity.I know the Greek history, and cinematography. The long takes are indeed interesting, and the only interesting thing about this movie other than Ganz's fine acting. The transfer, BTW, is execrable.The extra film of the academic explaining the symbolic and literary antecedents was amusing and annoying: the former for its silly professorialisms; the latter for forcing ill-fitting and ultimately unnecessary parallels with Homer's Odyssey on the story.One other element of merit, however: glimpses of the desperate refugee underclass and undercurrent of human trafficking.If you like slow, predictable downers and deserted, half-constructed buildings, this film is for you!
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