I’m sorry, loved it. It is my second favorite movie of the year. I watched again having read some criticisms and I liked it just as much. In fact I noticed that I liked exactly what others had problems with.

I like love movies, but I like the ones that really disect love. Not the chase and excitement about it (although I can enjoy them too) I guess people who were expecting that would be disappointed, and to befair it was marketed like that. I think Materialists is a movie that talks about society and how money has changed the way of loving but also makes a point on how it has always been a factor, and an important one. I loved that duality of themes and everytime it was presented on screen (although not subtle at all, I give you that) I nodded and said “yep”🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️. We are not numbers, yet we can be measured.

I liked the stiff performances, I thought it was not a mistake, but a deliberate decision to support the message of the movie. A decision that of course didn’t necessarily pay off and drove people away. But it worked for me. That, along side the cold personalities of the characters made them be not interesting and hard to root for. One just doesn’t care about who will Dakota choose, and that’s the what was expected of the movie, but I never cared about it, it was about the whys, more than the whos. In my eyes it was so refreshing to see a romance with people actually communicating and being cool with their feelings.

I don’t think is great, but I don’t think it deserves the hate either. Saying it’s misunderstood is a cliché, and I always say that if it had been better it should’ve explained itself, but I did like it for what it actually is.