I know that the film is praised, I know that it is considered almost cult. I looked, I didn't know where. The film is very slow, boring, the first half an hour you can watch just by scrolling. There's not much more going on. They fell in love, changed, came to reconcile, made up, walked more, and died. It's a 5-minute story, actually, I don't know how much patience it takes to stretch it out for an hour and a half. In the film, zero action, and the main character seems to suggest that he needs to sympathize, but to do it is simply unrealistic, given that he led one to the grave, the other to her sucked, and even the daughter abandoned. How do you empathize with him?
If a film defines itself as a melodrama, it means that it must beat feelings, play them as an instrument, giving joy and pain. And there is none of this - love is shown dryly, fluently, the couple negotiates a relationship almost in the language of concluding a contract. And then you just sit and watch them try to pull this strap to the end of the film through an absolutely uninteresting action, if it can be called such.
I’ll talk about the scientific moment in the film. It is alleged that the girl has chest neuroblastoma, which subsequently clogged her heart valve and which gradually kills the heroine. Hello, fairy tale. Neuroblastoma is a tumor of the nervous system in the abdominal cavity, a purely disease of infants and children under 15 years of age. And after a blockage of the heart valve, they do not recover, lying in the hospital for a couple of days, and then they do not walk on the bridge over the autumn river - they die from it. I really hate authors who don’t even understand what they’re writing and can’t check it out.