The Turin Horse (2011)

Lack of good storyline.

Great Film overall

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I don't know why anyone would want to watch a woman help her father put on and take off his clothes, eat potatoes and drink brandy over and over again for two and a half hours. The fact that this is listed as a drama is insulting to all the good drama out there.Virtually the only thing this movie has going for it is the stunning cinematography. Grainy, dreary and filled with angst. But if you think there's a story to complement this, you're dead wrong. There is no story. It's pure blooded European arthouse. Effectively rendering the whole movie as a glorified camera test. Either that or the pacing was just so excruciatingly slow I managed to miss all the key plot points as I was nodding off.The movie counts the days in which the "story" takes place which serves absolutely no purpose. Because there is no end goal, no finish line, no tension. Thematically, the movie speaks on the level of a Nietzsche obsessed teenager who is pissed off at his/her parents. Meaning it's very pretentious, has a lot of things it wants to say, but has no idea how to say these things. Which makes it stupid.Don't waste your time with this one like I did.

Girl:What it is Papa? Father:I don't know.. It is my first Bela Tarr movie and I don't think that words can help me to write a review on 'The Turin Horse' and it is my first review. I have been watching movies since my childhood, reading literature and philosophy in order to understand human condition but the visual and sound sensation I have had with 'The Turin Horse' is matchless. There is a modern novel in which a girl commits suicide because she think that she had to brush her teeth everyday with the same brush. Bela Tarr's characters are eating raw potatoes everyday,fortunately they don't commit suicide but what is the point in living? Bela will compel you to think about it. Father: Eat. we have to... To be very honest 'The Turin Horse' is the most powerful work of cinematic art I've ever came across, it is not social but ontological rather cosmological. What it is to be human? Want to know? Go and watch it, the 'heaviness of human existence' to put it in Bela's words.

Movies often afford us the opportunity to experience things we otherwise would not experience in our own lifetimes. We can live many lifetimes through movies. Movies are an art form and a great film is one that is an involving experience that is real, let's you live and breathe the experience depicted in the film. Bela Tarr is a great film maker who has shown us some very realistic and impacting imagery in his films.The message of this film is that life is a struggle, often tedious and boring, and sometimes unjust. The film is boring as you live the lives in the movie, because the movie depicts life as boring. The film is great from an artistic vantage because it enables you to live the tediousness. You live in a hard world where the greatest pleasure is looking out of a window to view a desolate environment. But the film makes you feel such desolation, tediousness, loneliness, and hardship.There is very little dialog except for one monologue by a visitor in which he ventilates his frustrations with the problems in the world, in an abstract and disorganized manner. But this corresponds to the main message of the film.The artistic value of the film is in providing the viewer with a realistic experience. However, this experience is not fun, exciting, action-packed, or need-fulfilling, and that will turn off most viewers.

not comfortable. but necessary. a man. his daughter. a horse. and a place. the rituals - eating potatoes as basic. the gestures as creation of world. the hill. Palinka bottle and the glasses. the tree. the barn gates. the disappearance of wood decay, the birth of storm, the death of storm, the veil of darkness. a film like a spider web. or only trip in yours deep feelings. because it is an experience. one out to be common. a film about nothing. with references from Tarkovski or Ingmar Bergman. an ash circle. or only, a silhouette. fragile, strong, cold, hot, religious. Christ dead by Mantegna in the image of father. the fountain. the night. the run. the lamp. all as sign of profound desire. to survive.an experience. or only mirror of memory.