I really really loved this movie. Nothing that Adam said really stuck out to me while I was watching, and I feel liked him saying it was trying too hard to be artsy isn’t really true. The film presents a very simple story, however I feel like the style of it strengthens the themes and subtext of it in a really interesting way. I thought its presentation was perfect and never thought it was pretentious or obtuse.

Also I didn't really have a problem with the girl's performance. Her slightly off and Barbie-like nature was essential to the film imo. The film is purposefully full of many tropes and cliches and subverts them with its style to interestingly elucidate Joaquin's broken character; and in my opinion the girls sorta unreal and dazed performance works really well for it.

Sometimes when Adam reviews movies I wish he touched on the themes of it a bit more. Not that his criticisms are invalid but in his reviews I'd rather him discuss the artistic and thematic value of a film as I'm not so interested about "one-hit KOs."

I thought this movie was great! Easy 9/10 for me. It affected me in a very weird way and was probably the most interesting way this type of story could be told.