Review of The Square (2017) by Kaustav — 05 Feb 2018

The Square is a difficult film, almost a bit too much of fluff and with no closure or even punchline to take away. It is quirky, a lot of it is placed in a way that induces mirthless laughter but does not make you think much about it is trying to tell. It is movie whose sum of pieces (a few interesting ones - namely, the Museum Speech, the hookup situation(s) and human ape fiasco among others) is so much better than its whole; so much so that a person would be much better off watching those clips in a skit/sketch sort video on YT than ever caring about the movie itself.

Here are the only three reasons you should watch this movie:

1) Danish (possibly) may well be the most annoying language humanly spoken ever and this movie goes out of its way to let you experience that.

2) There are very real and awkward interactions and conversations between some of the cast that is unbelievably fun.

3) It got a Academy Award nomination and you are far too curious and obsessive to let the opportunity go of knowing what did Terry Notary, Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West do to deserve it. Well, go and watch it then. Perhaps you'll know.