Review of Margot at the Wedding (2007) by Intuciic . — 22 Jan 2013

I suppose this movie was supposed to be a realistic approach to the ways in which siblings relate to one another when they exist in complete separate realms. What I saw was a film that attempted to capture people as they are in reality: petty, bitter, and lost.

Someone once told me there are 2 types of movies, art and entertainment, and once you've watched something you should be able to categorize that film into one or both categories. Good movies are easy to fit, great movies straddle that fine line that divides the two categories.

This, however...

Entertaining it was not. I purposefully took my watch off five minutes into the film so I could convince myself to finish watching it. It wasn't art since the overarching theme of "humans are petty, bitter, and lost," was itself lost through veiled attempts at comedy. I think that this film wanted to show audiences what people are truly like. However, there was no insight, no personal introspectives that the audience was privy. All you get is the shallow facades you are treated to in the real world. So I thought it was little more than an extravagant home movie.