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This film is just so unreal. Like a pastiche of cliches about the art world. The ambiguous sexuality of Jake Gyllenhaal's Morf. Morf? The too obvious blending of characters for the PC conscious. The truly inexplicable physical attraction of Morf to Zawe Ashton's Josephina. Zawe Ashton may be a good actress. That's a question not a statement. But sexy she is not. Those legs? Oof! In fact those lumpy legs may have been more scary than the animated paintings. All in all a walk through of a movie. Oh yeah John Malkovich and Rene Russo picked up a paycheck too.

When you create a movie that absolutely needs to be explained to the viewer for them to understand what they have seen...that's a problem. If you watched this film and didn't google an explanatory synopsis of it then you are probably mostly confused with a small glimmer of understanding that you have witnessed some religious symbolism. That's correct. I doubt anyone who watched this admittedly visually interesting film understood 90% of what they saw in a cohesive manner when it ended. Bits and pieces struck a chord with me as religious allegories but by the end I couldn't tell you how they fit together and that was frustrating. Even the blog I read explaining the film didn't understand all of it. And it was a pretty thorough account of what I thought I had seen. If I was only judging production and acting this might be a 9 of a movie. Jennifer Lawrence was great. But when the film makers know their audience won't understand most of what they viewed by the end of the film that just bothers me. Thank God I borrowed this free at the local library.