Blue Jay (2016)

Why so much hype?

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

I think it would only be fair for this film to come with a warning: "Attention! It's just 2 actors talking in an apartment through all this low-budget black and white film. It's actually a theater play". Maybe the paying spectator doesn't want a play, they want a movie. It won't matter the film is very good, actors are great: the spectator will feel they were cheated.

I know black and white is supposed to be artsy and mood creating, but I'm a color kind of guy, sorry. I also felt like they both played the awkwardness too hard at the beginning. And, as usual for me, I'd like a bit more background details up front- about both characters, and more scenes from around the town. Finally the ending was not my kind...........maybe not a live happily ever after, but at least SOMETHING!

First I want to say I just read all reviews here and I love you people. You rekindle my hope in mankind. From Vancouver to Cairo to Rome. Great art does that. Bring together great people.Greetings. I just watched this MASTERPIECE. Not only of film, but of human creation, of human feeling.It made me realize there is such thing as a crime against MAGIC. Letting the chemistry between two beautiful souls die.It's like REALITY BITES meets Sex Lies and Videotape meets It's a Wonderful Life. And after all these years... there is still the most MAGNIFICENT power on Earth out there. If only hearts could turn on their WiFi.Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson, Alex Lehman: please find my gratitude and admiration enclosed.From Paris with loveDaniel

I have just finished to watch it and I am completely overwhelmed by feelings right now. This movie hit me straight to the heart and I couldn't avoid to go back to my memories. The small and boring town, the old man of the shop, the same old habits. And the black and white that brings the illusion of seeing a story of the past, as it actually is. This is so authentic, you can easily feel the magic between two people who knows each other so deeply and for so long time that it seems like nothing has changed. But life sometimes is unfair, you miss a thing and everything takes a different road. Maybe a better one, maybe not. Who knows. One night to dive into the past. Then a deep breath, real life begins again.