good movie style movie made to fully get into but still good

I think it was a great story, but unfortunately filming from the first person perspective was distracting and made the film difficult to follow.

Weird camera angles, disjointed flow.

Unfollwable. I don’t know who had the idea of creating a movie that used so many oddball cinematic devices so poorly. I get that it’s a huge subject, incredibly sad, but they chose an alienating way to tell it

A special, special movie that will be remembered and discussed decades from now. Hoping more people can check it out.

really well done. I read the book which let me imagine some of the occurrences. Watching the movie was almost as good and a little more frightening. A story that needed to be told!

Really really enjoyed alot about this. I loved the POV structure, cinematography was perfection, and the story was important and powerful. Why I dont rate it higher is simply because I think, for what was a condensed kind of narrative, we got a pretty long movie. And the style, albeit creative, I think is better served by a story with a quicker pace overall. I loved looking at this though, and I was moved by the performances, and felt a really strong emotional attachment due to how it was made. Just think our journey took time that felt a bit excessive to me.

Difficult to follow and hear the dialoge. Powerful message!

The cinematography was striking, the storytelling was lyrical and intriguing, the characterizations were strong. I got lost in Elwood and Harriet's story. I was excited to see how the first-person style would land for me and drew me in immediately. I can't imagine the story being told otherwise.

Important and completely necessary. My personal favorite of the best picture nominees!

It was good with a lot of conversation after about how the story was told and filmed. Short connected snippets, as if someone took just the bullet points from a chapter, and filmed the facts. Definitely a non-traditional way of telling an important and difficult story and requires the viewer to really pay attention as filled with symbolism.

I loved the book and really want to enjoy this. However, the constant use of first person for the camera view was intolerable. I had to leave after an hour.

A true-ish story that needed to be told but I did not care for the filming style/perspective. I give a bonus for based one true things.

The struggle these boys endured is sad. Definitely a tear jerker and a worth see.

love the movie. was a little hard to follow at first

We walked out! It was terrible! Very hard to follow ! Would love credit for another movie for the 2 of us! Not a fun way to celebrate Valentines Day!

Beautifully shot and edited to let you feel as part of the strong friendship between the main characters. Brought me back some 45 years to a time of anxiety, inexperience, but always with a sense of hope fueled by the strength of youth. I loved the movie, the characters and the actors.

The narrative was hard to follow at times but you could feel that a person who loved the process of making films enjoyed making this one

A ver powerful story butchered by strange directing.

Visually inspired, with an often aimless screenplay. About an hour too long.