Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
PlatinumRead Just so...so bad
Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
icequeen_vienna Contrary to reviews, I did not find this film funny in the least. And why make it in black and white? To kid people that it's an 'arthouse' film? It's not. s got on my nerves with her 'loser' attitude. Also her friends got on my nerves. But then, twenty-somethings will probably find much to enjoy.Not my thing.
sexwizardmoustache This is the most accurate depiction that I've seen of life in your twenties, trying to make it in a big city. Just failing miserably at life, jobs, apartments, share housing, money, friends, relationships, but finally getting there towards the end, even though it's not how you imagined. It is the antithesis of every romcom that perpetuates the illusion that everything is supposed to fall in your lap. It's funny that we tend to be preconditioned to think that way based on clichéd movies and then are bitterly disillusioned when faced with a much harsher reality. No, great apartments, jobs and relationships aren't easy to find or keep, friendships don't always work out the way you hoped and dreams aren't always realised the way you thought they would be. But then there's that triumphant moment, when all that is behind you, and you've finally found yourself and your place in the world. And I think that moment is beautifully encapsulated in the final scene when s is smiling to herself in her own apartment and gets to put her name on her very own mailbox. I can definitely relate and still the feeling of finding my first apartment in the city, and that glorious sense of independence and self sufficiency of finally knowing everything is going to be alright. This movie is so real, and is pretty much the most unpretentious and relatable "indie" flick I've ever seen. Loved this so much more than I expected and I would watch it again.
jfgibson73 This is the first movie I've seen with Greta Gerwin, who is apparently a thing. I didn't dislike this movie, but it is full of all the moments that make up your typical indie art film. If you usually find them pretentious, that's probably how you'll see s Ha. I guess the idea is that the movie is more of a series of moments than a linear narrative. I didn't feel that it had the typical storytelling arc for the character to follow. I also didn't understand what we were supposed to think about the many odd choices the main character makes. She lies needlessly, makes some impulsive decisions, fails to take risks on other occasions, and just generally doesn't seem to have any consistent motivation throughout. You could say that the point is that she is a case of arrested development and hasn't figured out how to be an adult at a time when things should be falling into place in her life, but it starts and ends with her in pretty much the same place and doesn't add up to anything other than 90 minutes of a mildly interesting look into this character's life. Not really enough to warrant a film, but anyone who usually enjoys Baumbach's films should be just as happy with this one.
commandx2000 Entitled. Mean-spirited. Lazy. There's a French saying about lazy artists picking easy targets.. It's known as 'kicking down open doors.' That's exactly what s Ha does. Nothing to see here unless you're young and wealthy in NYC and, somehow, still feel you need vindication. In which case, come right in and make yourself at home. Sorry, but in my book, everything is politics and this movie specifically invites the type of criticism I am making here.Unfortunately, the ruling class in this country has such a stranglehold on the 'art-world'that a self-indulgent piece of garbage like this will, rather than meet with criticism, get raves from the kind of cozy intellectual mainstream that, like blue-bloods throughout history, looks down on labor and working for a living.This is tired stuff, folks. These sentiments were exciting when the beat generation- a generation which actually struggled for their art- exulted in them in the 50s. To imply that one can transpose those same power-elite tangents to spoiled rich kids in NYC in 2016 is just insulting.I'm not a fan of the Men's Rights movement either, but this movie takes Mansploitation to a new level. s Ha actually managed to make me feel sorry for a Wall Street broker bro. Jesus. What an accomplishment. Why? Because I have some humanity and these characters are all about dehumanizing the 'other' and those who are not like them. Why not tie Patch down and crap down his throat while you're at it?I am far from anti-intellectual, but I do consider myself a bit too far to the left in my politics to relate to the facile rich-kid uber domination of the arts that has become the norm in today's America -and is lovingly represented in s Ha. Watching this movie, I kept wishing the guillotine would come back in vogue.
