Dependencia sexual (2003)

Dependencia sexual (2003). Dependencia sexual: Directed by Rodrigo Bellott. With Alexandra Aponte, Roberto Urbina, Jorge Antonio Saavedra, Ronica V. Reddick. Five teenagers in the U.S. and Bolivia try to make sense of their sexuality and the complexity of their identity.

“I think this could have been a good film, but, as others have mentioned, the split-screen u0026#39;styleu0026#39; (?) is incredibly annoying over 100-odd minutes of watching, or, in this case, watching TWICE. That adds up to 200-odd minutes of watching five different stories, all while distracting you with camera gimmickry.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the mid-1960s, a graphic designer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada named Chris Chapman created the split-screen idea for a short film on the Province of Ontario for the provincial government. It was a sensation at Expo u0026#39;67 in Montreal, and was such a novel idea that Toronto director Norman Jewison (and others) used it in 1960s films.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe idea, predictably, went nowhere. It was trendy, had flair, but was not sustainable over the length of an entire film. Jewison used it sparingly in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and it annoyed critics even then. And here, almost 40 years later, we have a director who thinks it would be a great idea to try it again, this time (unlike Jewison, who was far more judicious) over the ENTIRE STRETCH of a movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was astounded that this was done. It defies basic physical laws. The human eye just cannot catch up with a blizzard of jump cuts (and thatu0026#39;s what they really amount to) over a feature-length. Instead of intensifying the drama, it instead made me truly irritated.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRepeat: I THINK this could have been a good film. Or is that films, as in plural?”