Drawing Restraint 9

Most helpful review Drawing Restraint 9

• So much promise with no execution

   

  By JoeL (16 reviews) from Leeds , 17 Oct 2007

  [Highly rated reviewer]

  Any film that moves as slowly as Drawing Restraint 9 for me has to be outstandingly engaging, beautiful and powerful, whereas I found this film boring, pretentious and unmoving (except one scene which I will discuss).
  
  I thought there was too much focus on the ship and too little on the characters. I found myself getting extremely restless with hours of footage of crew on a ship and the ship itself.
  
  The soundtrack was one of the better factors of the film. There was one particular beautiful track sang by Bjork as she was getting ready to bathe, but I feel the crude nature of the big ship and bland lighting did the track no justice whatsoever.
  
  The one scene I enjoyed and will no doubt stay in my mind was the scene where the two main characters take to each other with knives in a passionate, sadistic, ritual as the water rises around them. This was very engaging but not worth waiting the 2 hours of weird, yet boring occurrences that had preceded it. The scene for me however was somewhat ruined by the soundtrack which turned into something more comical than experimental that did not work at all for me.
  
  All in all I was extremely disappointed because Barney obviously has a very beautiful and complex mind yet left his audience relieved to see the credits going up at the end of the film. I am a fan of the avant-garde but not when it’s not captivating.

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