Bubble

2006 "Another Steven Soderbergh Experience"
6.5| 1h14m| R| en
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Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.

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TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Andres-Camara I know I've seen a movie, but I do not know what he wanted to tell me. The only thing that is clear to me is that it is directed by someone who does not want to make movies anymore and I say it because it seems to be made with so much reluctance that it is not only cold, but it does not understand anything.Spoiler:I think Steven Soderbergh, at the time of making this film was in a phase of his life, that he did not want to make movies, if not, not explain a movie like this and I explain. He does not have any kind of enthusiasm or feeling. You also do not know what genre it is, it starts out as a social movie, for almost an hour and then we go on to intrigue, thriller, to finish with a resolution of the movie that did not matter and shabby. He does not know how to finish it and finishes it with a loose plane of the two women that does not come to story. I do not know if the actors are wrong by misdirected, or if Steven wanted them like this, without any feeling. The proof is when they tell Marta that she is dead Rose: Rose is dead. For real? If the police told us. Are not you kidding? They have not come to tell us. It's okay. I have a gift for you. Thank you.The downside is that I do not think it's a black humor movie, which I might square, but that's not the case.Then we see the photograph, all made in post-production. In the coldest moments we see a photograph of the most warm, saturated, what do you want to have this picture?We know that Soderbergh is not characterized by being a great planner, his plans are between normal and bad, but is that in this case, do not reach that. In many cases, the planes are so general that you do not know who speaks, or who is on screen, especially because when we take an hour many new appear. And if not then we make plans cutting heads. The only good thing is makeup and hairdressing as well as art. But this is not complicated, just tell the actors to come normal.I do not really know what I've seen, it seemed that I was watching the typical social film, extremely slow, that repeats itself and repeats and suddenly we pass to a death that does not come to mind and you lose altogether. At that moment as he does not know how to follow and this would be a new film, because not clear, we have to finish soon, we settled in two sequences
bandw Kyle is a young man who works at a repetitious job in a doll factory in a small mid-western town. He works most closely with Martha, an overweight and less than attractive middle-aged woman whom Kyle depends on for rides to work. Martha's social life outside of work consists of taking care of her aging father. Rose, an attractive young woman, is hired and joins Martha and Kyle on their daily breaks. The conversations in the lunch room are perhaps the most mundane ever put in a commercial film.I began to wonder what direction this could take that could possibly hold my attention, but Rose's entering the picture began to change the personal dynamics in way that kept my attention. Rose presented a challenge to Martha's maternal feelings for Kyle (in fact there is a suggestion that there may be more than maternal instincts involved). As the movie moves toward its final resolution we get to know the three characters: Kyle is a study in passivity, Rose knows she wants more and will do what it takes to get it, and Martha is seen to have strong emotions under her plain exterior.The inside of the doll factory makes for a suitable backdrop for this downbeat tale among the working poor. I was surprised that making the dolls had not been more automated than is pictured, since many of the tasks are robotic. There is a lot of manual work involved, for example, one of Martha's jobs is to affix eyelashes to the dolls, and Kyle works on forming the doll legs. The plot develops very subtly; this movie is not one that will set you back on your heels. The use of non-professional actors in all roles works here. I doubt that any director could have gotten this level of authenticity from professionals. There are rewards here for the patient viewer.
trcky1 Well...nothing out of the ordinary happens in this film. It simply shows normal everyday people going about their normal everyday lives. I'm sure some film patrons would enjoy this plain, down to earth style of film, but when I watch a movie or show, I look for stories that are not ordinary, because I myself live an ordinary life and want to see things portrayed that happen outside of my own life and space.There's no protagonist in this film, no real heroes or villains, not much conflict, and the characters don't really grow or change. Pretty much just a depiction of ordinary people living ordinary lives, at a time when there are no real significant events happening in their lives. The film does end with a slightly different event happening, but by that time, I was completely numbed by the drab and dreary story of these characters' experiences (or rather non-experiences), that I didn't really care. Possibly the worst film I've ever seen, tied with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Claudio Carvalho In a small North American town, the middle age Martha (Debbie Doebereiner) and the twenty and something years old Kyle (Dustin Ashley) work in a doll factory. Martha nurses her old father and usually gives a lift to Kyle, who works also in the night-shift cleaning a shovel factory. When the young single mother Rose (Misty Wilkins) is hired to work with airbrush and stencils in the factory, she is befriended by Kyle and Martha. In a Friday night, Rose hires Martha to work as babysitter of her two year old daughter Jesse and Martha finds that she is dating Kyle. Rose returns back home early after stealing Kyle's savings, and Martha witnesses Jesse's father Jake (K.Smith) accusing Rose of stealing weed and money from his house. On the next morning, Rose is found strangled in her house and Detective Don Taylor (Decker Moody) interviews Jake, Kyle and Martha along his investigation."Bubble" is an extremely simple low-budget movie disclosing a tale of losers. The three lead characters have basic education only and spend their hopeless lonely lives in a small town without any perspective. Their greatest ambitions are traveling on vacation to Aruba (Martha) or buy a car (Kyle). The good point in this flick is the acting of unknown débutant actors and actresses, all of them with great and credible performances. The camera work is very simple, the identity of the killer is easily predictable and there is nothing special in this film but the mentioned top-notch performances. The shameful DVD released by Brazilian distributor Paris Filmes does not allow the viewer to access the Menu unless after watching advertisements and a trailer. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Bubble"