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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I think we all have limits to our credulity. It's a matter of where those limits lie for each of us. I'm finding my credulity not only stretched for irreparably broken more and more when I watch movies, and I'm suggesting that it's movies that are changing, not me.
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Don't you see an issue with lumping "movies" together like you just did? This isn't a doc or anything remotely close, it's not meant to describe what life is like in a music school. It's essentially a play that throws two fairly exaggerated characters at each other to explore aspects of human nature. The exaggeration is just a part of the way the film does its work, it results in a greater emotional impact (or is intended to, at least).
If it didn't work for you that's fine (again I think that's a matter of you not connecting with the material rather than a deficiency in the quality of the material), but to suggest that it was implausible and therefore bad completely misses the point.
No, it's not surrealist, but if this is you reaction to this sort of movie I can't imagine what your reaction to surrealist pieces would be. Unless maybe you're able to accept the premises of certain modes of art, and not others?