Aloft Review
RYAN: Jennifer Connelly is one of my fave actresses ever and I’m happy to see anything she does. This is a new dramatic indie but sadly, it didn’t hit the spot.
CAROLINE: That’s sucky. Why not?
RYAN: It’s a very bleak, cold, depressing film and not really fun to go to that place for about 90 minutes. And it’s very confusing, which always offends me as a moviegoer. I appreciate complexity within a story, but when you pay your closest attention and still cannot make sense of the story, that’s just irritating.
CAROLINE: I couldn’t agree more. And you’re always really good at following plot lines. You’re usually explaining to me things I couldn’t always piece together.
RYAN: There’s clearly something wrong with this script and the way it’s directed. It’s almost like two separate movies spliced together. There’s the modern day story of an adult son, played by Cillian Murphy and then flashbacks of his childhood with his mom played by Jen.
CAROLINE: Hmm. I’m following so far.
RYAN: But then the nothing makes sense – Cillian Murphy is out in the cold with a journalist and there’s some metaphor to do with eagles. So annoying.
CAROLINE: Yeah I don’t like the sound of that.
RYAN: I was so confused at one point, I actually thought it was science fiction but it’s not. It’s just annoyingly difficult to follow.
CAROLINE: (laughs) That sounds so tedious.
RYAN: There’s a naturalness to the way it’s shot but it all moves at a snails pace and since it’s boring and nonlinear, I gave up caring about it. I started to make lists of other things I had to do in my head. I could barely keep watching it.
