December 31, 2007

Happy Together (1997)

1/5

The worst part about boring movies is that even the short ones are way too long. Take, for example, Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together. Its 90-minute running time should have been shortened to somewhere around 0 minutes. That's what a good editor would have done, anyway. The plot follows a gay couple's love-hate relationship, and the movie successfully examines nothing new or interesting about homosexuality or relationships. The problem is that it thinks it does, and so it lingers on the tepid and banal. The egregious error that is the visual "style" is worthless and painful on the eyes, only serving to disrupt our attention from the story, characters, and message. I've seen good gay movies, good relationship movies, and good Wong Kar Wai movies. This is not any of them. It is instead a failure. Of everything.

IMDb link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0118845/