I can understand why some people might not like this movie. But I feel that the reasons why this movie gets such bad reviews are exactly the reasons why this movie is so good.
Sure, the movie is very slow paced, the actual story telling keeps being stalled, and the main character doesn't do anything even when he has more than enough evidence. But isn't that what love does to people?
To me, the movie uses this slow, almost destination-less, cinematography to evoke in the viewer the feelings Cody feels throughout the movie. Even when he has more than enough evidence to know the girl was lying to him, he still loves her and is so confused that just doesn't want to believe the truth. He keeps avoiding reality, trying to find more and more evidence hoping to find something better. So all the crazy scenes, all the empty shots, all the stalling, pictures the way in which someone might react to an inconvenient truth.
Sure, the movie is very slow paced, the actual story telling keeps being stalled, and the main character doesn't do anything even when he has more than enough evidence. But isn't that what love does to people?
To me, the movie uses this slow, almost destination-less, cinematography to evoke in the viewer the feelings Cody feels throughout the movie. Even when he has more than enough evidence to know the girl was lying to him, he still loves her and is so confused that just doesn't want to believe the truth. He keeps avoiding reality, trying to find more and more evidence hoping to find something better. So all the crazy scenes, all the empty shots, all the stalling, pictures the way in which someone might react to an inconvenient truth.