The greatest movie ever!

Dreadfully Boring

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I enjoy arthouse films, and I really enjoy films about art. But not when they yield whatever this "movie" was. This film was the guy-in-Starbucks-on-his-macbook-sipping-his-$8-latte-while-checking-his-iPhone X-posting-about-the-horrors-of-capitalism levels of pretentious. I am just in awe at how this passed screenings and people didn't exclaim, "What the hell was that even about?". The first half of the film is amusing, although every single character was unlikable and overbearingly annoying. They all exuded levels of narcissism and superiority that make it really hard to invest in what they were doing. Modern art is hit-or-miss, at best, and all of the "Art" shown in this movie was a huge miss. But you wouldn't know it from the way these talent-less hacks would rave about the most mundane looking pieces that any Renaissance artist was laugh at.Unfortunately, the second half of the film falls of a cliff and nosedives into the jagged rocks below. After a horrible and hilarious cringey live performance, the movie devolves into people looking intently at their phones, making garbled conversation, and just being painfully boring. Seriously, I have seen some boring movies in my time, but this film really takes the cake in that NOTHING OF INTEREST OR ARTISTIC VALUE GOES ON FOR MOST OF IT!!! I' m sorry for the yelling, but in truth, anyone who says that they are "affected" or "touched" by this is delusional, and is simply hoping that others see them the way they see themselves. This movie is made for people that don't enjoy movies themselves, but enjoy talking about movies in a bid to appear intellectual.Overall, I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone. It just isn't special, it isn't that funny, and at 2 hours at 30 minutes, it overstays it's welcome by at least 1 hour and 15 minutes. Don't sit through this and groan in embarrassment for most of it like I did. It's just not worth it.

Shame! Shame! Shame! on "The Square" for its incessantly gabby bullshit and for the guilt-trip that it tried to lay on any viewer who wasn't a homeless person.Being a non-homeless person, myself - I lived in Vancouver's Strathcona neighborhood for a number of years (which is right next door to Skid-Row Capital) - And, at that time, I saw 2 beautiful buildings go up in that area that were specifically meant to house the homeless.Well - Within 6 months both of these buildings were an utter mess of litter, filth, and excrement. And the reason why this was so was because the homeless don't give a damn about anything, and they don't respect anything, or anybody.These people, who are always screaming for their rights, want the rest of society to always be cleaning up after them and always taking care of them. They refuse to take responsibility for anything in their lives (though they are quite capable of doing so).And, so - With that in mind - I refuse to have some narrow-minded, little movie, like "The Square", lay its bullshit guilt-trip on me.

'The Square' is certainly a viewing experience I will not be forgetting in a long while. As a satire of the art world it is often funny, sometimes even hilarious, and it provides for some extremely absurd scenes which keeps you engaged as you wonder what is going to come next. It all works towards some thought-provoking themes about human behaviour, the superficiality of art and the way modern society functions which I felt was explored really well.I really enjoyed Claes Bang's performance as the art curator Christian with how he deals with all the chaos that goes on around him at the museum as well as in his private life. The supporting players are pretty decent as well with Elizabeth Moss, Dominic West, and Terry Notary playing their parts well.A particular scene with Notary is a standout in a piece of performance art where he acts like an ape in a dining room full of the elites of the art world and it gets a bit out of hand. It is a very powerful and intriguing scene. However, it seems detached from the rest of the film as there are only a couple of hints about it beforehand and there is no mention of it afterwards in the narrative.Another problem I have is the introduction of Christian's children which I found to be rather unnecessary as there is no point to them being there. They add basically nothing to the narrative and I feel it would have been better if they had been cut from the film entirely to shave a few minutes off the runtime.In the end though I thoroughly enjoyed the unconventional structure the film possessed and would recommend watching this for the experience of it.

Movie depicts a quintessential modern society tale in impeccable 1970-1980's style of film making. A must watch if you are a fan of those movies.