A movie about nothing, while something occurs around the nothing. Simply passing through life.
Intentions were cool, but lacking complete follow through and purpose.
Loved the entire experience. So many layers.
One example: Dog killer on the loose, dog treats in Sam’s pocket, women bark like dogs from Sam’s perspective, and from the very start of the movie, Sam stands in a coffee shop framed within a window with the message “Beware the Dog Killer”.
What a bunch of nonsense... I loved it!
It's totally weird just to be weird and most of it I have no idea what it meant but I enjoyed the mystery a great deal and Andrew Garfield is magnetic in the role. He carries the movie from start to finish. Riley Keough shines here too, she was excellent. Filled with hidden messages, loved the score, dream sequences were creepy and lots of funny moments. Favorite part has to be the piano guy who just wouldn't shut up. Totally rewatchable. One hell of a trippy fever dream.
Clearly not something for the average film goer, it feels like Mulholland Drive for coffeehouse hipsters, but I’m kinda here for it. It’s very surreal and abstract, mixing about a dozen of different film genres, so props to the director for making it feel as consistent as it does. Love how it’s shot, and I also really appreciate the music choices giving it a classic Alfred Hitchcock vibe. Terrific performance by Andrew Garfield, I love what it’s saying about Hollywood, the position of women in the industry and (popular) culture. Sometimes it feels a little scattershot or up its own ass (eccentric to the point of being annoying), but I found it rewarding in the end. For a movie that’s partly satirizing the idea of overanalyzing, it’s funny that it’s a movie challenging you to dive deep, because on the surface it really is a bunch of nonsense.
7/10
Just like Mulholland Drive. Except really, really, really awful
Positioning itself as equal parts neo-noir and genre subversion, Under the Silver Lake is essentially a cross between David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001) and Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice (2009). With the major difference being that it's absolutely, unrelentingly terrible. Attempting to work as both an example and a subversion of genre, Silver Lake is a mystery noir that is at pains to undermine and critique many of the best known generic markers. A 140-minute labyrinthine, paranoia-laden shaggy-dog story full of MacGuffins, false leads, narrative dead ends, and unexplained details, the film relocates the detective stories of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett to the chaotic postmodern era of cognitive semiotics where the relationship between signifier and signified is now so arbitrary that meaning-making itself has become a protean commodity. However, it is easily the most self-important piece of garbage I've seen in a long time; a philosophically juvenile rumination thoroughly convinced of its own portentousness. Fundamentally misogynistic (it's not misogyny, apparently, because it's being super-ironic when it presents no less than six female characters as literal sex toys for the protagonist), it's at least 45 minutes too long, with an unfocused narrative, poorly thought-out metaphors, an insipid protagonist, about 377 themes, and a laughable screenplay. The cinematography is pretty though.
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Should have listened to Paul VIncent. This movie has done irreversible damage to my frontal lobe.
I love how Garfield carries the character in this movie, he's awesome. You have to admire the cinematography and the score here, it's so beautiful.
I know this is not a movie for everyone, but if you wanna see this, don't expect a coherent plot. Just enjoy the ride and try to find the meaning you want, but only if you want to.
Come for the mystery, stay for the rambling tour of LA odd types, pop culture references, and Lynchian craziness. All topped off with smattering of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. A strange film then; worth watching, but only if you can stand a lack of coherent narrative.
Me ha parecido soporífera... De hecho a mitad de película estaba quedándome dormida.
Man what the actual fuck?
This movie almost put me to sleep. The lack of plot and uninteresting characters made this a struggle to get through. There some wild moments but not enough.
I liked this one, it could have been better but I still recommend it.
Wow. Didn't realize I was getting into a Lynchian fever dream. Garfield is fantastic in this. There's a lot to unpack, but without spoiling anything I'll recommend checking out the subreddit for the film upon your conclusion if you're interested in further sleuthing of some of the hidden meanings.
This movie was over 2 hours but felt closer to 6 in parts. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but time felt different watching it. This leaves more of an impression than expected. Strong 7.3.
I watched this high as shit and omg I thought it was a pretty artsy film at first (I was sober for the first half) but then it started getting so scary like wtf is happening? It’s all so creepy!
This had the capacity to be so much better than it was. They made Andrew Garfield's character such an abusive, unlikable stalker, and it completely missed the mark in making him a sympathetic lead. It's too bad, b/c it could've been an interesting mystery.
What if Steve Erickson wrote The Library at Mount Char?
Didn't hate it, didn't love it. It's 2 1/2 hours long, but feels like it's 4 1/2.
It's amusing and odd, but drifts along aimlessly, but also has an interesting story. It's just really weird. 7/10
This surreal comic moved to the cinema is becoming a more and more strange story.
It takes a while to understand the perspective from which this film should be viewed. At first it feels like a mystery/thriller and then slowly (although not always obviously) it devolves into something else. The first hour is definitely the best part of the film. I get the homage to David Lynch but this felt really lacking. I know this might be overly-simplistic of me but it felt like random elements were tossed all over the story line in order to prove mental instability of certain characters. That just seems to easy and somewhat lazy. It is nowhere near movies like The Conversation or Mullholland Drive.
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“Our world is filled with codes.” An enigma rapped in a riddle full of bullsh**, Under the Silver Lake is a pointless film about nothing. When a new tenant from his apartment complex mysteriously goes missing Sam investigates her disappearance and happens upon a bizarre secret society by unraveling a series of hidden clues. Featuring Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, and Topher Grace, the film has a pretty solid cast. But the writing is piss-pour; the mysteries and riddles don’t make any sense, the resolution couldn’t be more unsatisfying, and most of the characters don’t even have names. But the film looks gorgeous and has a surrealist, film noir feel. Incredibly disappointing, Under the Silver Lake is insultingly stupid with a plot that goes nowhere.
Wowow watching with Marcus is the best way
Very odd movie, kind of all over the place Garfield gave a very good performance and the movie is interesting and well set up just not very well executed.
Under the Silver Lake feels very much like a movie that was supposed to mean something, but in the end does exactly what it should. Nothing.
As we follow the depressed Sam, as acted by Andrew Garfield, we're introduced to all sorts of sub-plots that are seemingly very important from an outside perspective, but Sam wants none of that. He's searching for the one thing he has always had, but was seemingly denied.
The movie touches a lot on modern day culture, and showing the ridiculous nature of pop culture.
If you go into this movie expecting real resolution to anything, you'll be sorely disappointed, however, if you approach the middle of the movie and realize how ridiculous and almost surreal the acting and decision making are, you're in for a treat.
I probably couldn't recommend this movie to most people, but definitely don't regret watching it.
Under the Silver Lake is a grunge Blue Velvet that will let you like it even if you don't understand it completely.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2018-12-11T13:13:28Z
"How's work?"
Without a purpose, there's not much to do except dawdle through town. Sticking your middle finger up to job centres but stalking sex. Spying on girls through the lens of binoculars with a growing sex drive that's big enough to destroy the world.
What's the first thing you masturbated to?
Sticky curiosity sends him on a wild adventure, but is it so wild for him? Who knows? It's a cartoonish set of events which starts with a "dog killer" lurking the streets, and leads to...well, uh, lots more.
PAY THE DAMN RENT!
The perfectly casted Andrew Garfield absolutely kills this role, and he does a lot in this movie. Punches kids in the face, runs around naked (a lot), you name it and I bet he does it!
Alongside Kurt Cobain and a picture of a literal girl next door, he embarks on a quest through magic mushrooms, an iconic balloon girl and many suicidal thoughts.
I personally loved this movie. I had an unbeliveable amount of fun and them 140 minutes flew by! The cinematography and score are so unique, and really make for a great combination in a film which tip-toes between different genres and definitely reinvents something.
Aimlessly wild.
This movie smells like teen spirit, and it reeks! I suppose there are a lot of skunks around here though.
Under the Silver Lake is so aware that it has no purpose (just like the main character), that it becomes one of my favourites of the year for sure.