Dick Johnson ist tot (2020)

Dick Johnson ist tot: Directed by Kirsten Johnson. With Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson. A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.

“Itu0026#39;s rare that a movie with so much good stuff in it is also quite frustrating.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAt the risk of going on too long: the main problem for me was the tone. The darkly comedic fantasy sequences never quite meshed with the far more effective (and more frequent) parts of the film that nakedly deal with the inevitability of death, and the immense struggles of aging. There was one fantasy sequence which was surprising moving in a really surreal way, until it clunkily featured an intentionally jarring gag, and I was pulled right out of feeling something profound.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI just… wasnu0026#39;t on this movieu0026#39;s level- I could tell I really liked it, and almost felt like I could love it, but it never sat 100% right with me. The whole premise of killing him in make believe ways never seemed to gel with the genuine emotions of the more down to earth stuff, and it left me a bit confused. There was surely an intent and a purpose, but itu0026#39;s one I canu0026#39;t grasp.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI know thereu0026#39;s something here Iu0026#39;m missing, and the stuff I got I know I really liked, so I can still say itu0026#39;s a good movie for sure. But itu0026#39;s almost like Iu0026#39;m missing a part of my brain that would enable me to fully u0026quot;getu0026quot; this movie, yu0026#39;know? Almost as confusing for me as Iu0026#39;m Thinking of Ending Things was 😅”