Apples (2020)
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Apples Movie Review
Apples is a 2020 Greek drama film directed by Christos Nikou and starring Aris Servetalis. It’s a mediocre, overly vague and pointless movie.
Aris enrolls in a recovery program for unclaimed patients to create identities during a pandemic that causes amnesia. Let’s first talk about this premise. I did not find anything wrong with it. In fact, I found it pretty promising, and not just relatable for our pandemic times, but because it could have gone on to explore some interesting themes about past trauma and identity.
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However, the end product is not good. They did not explore any of these themes properly. Yes, they touched upon these themes, but they did in such a vague manner that the messaging is non-existent and the purpose is nowhere to be found. It’s just a pointless movie through and through.
I personally dislike this new “weird” Greek wave and this movie thankfully isn’t as strange as some others, but it still had its fair share of uninteresting, utterly ridiculous sequences that were just there to be odd and nothing else. But for the most part, the movie is just way too slow and boring to have a bigger impact on the audiences, at least on anybody who isn’t a pretentious snob.
Apples is well acted by its lead, but the character is thin and empty due to the structure and plot of the movie, which may have been expected of course, but still I expected more. The cinematography is fine and the movie is technically okay, but the sparse dialogue bored me and it almost felt non-narrative at times due to a very artsy approach that is more visual than plot-driven, but not in a good way.
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