Really Surprised!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Martín and Mariana are lonely Buenos Aires residents living next to each other without knowing. Mariana lives on the 8th floor but has a phobia about elevators. Her long-term relationship fell apart and she's isolated in her apartment looking for Waldo in the city. Martin is caring for a little dog that his ex left when she took off for America. She starts dating the dog-walker but she's distant. He spends more time online than in real life. Eventually, Martin and Mariana finally meets. This is a cold romance of two isolated human beings in an isolating environment. The biggest problem is that the characters don't get together until the very end. It's an artsy romance movie but not one of fiery passion. There is an artistic appeal but not necessarily a compelling watch.

It is not the best movie in the world, actually it is pretty boring. This movie talks about a lot of architecture and buildings, as you can note, the movie's name is Sidewalls. This movie is based on the Argentinian crisis, the dis-employment and the chaos in the city. Martin and Mariana are the protagonists of the movie, they explain us how they live in little apartments and their lives, jobs, hobbies and people they hang out with. This movie is filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, so the movie is in Spanish. I speak Spanish so i didn't need the subtitles, but my friends did watch it with subtitles, and they could get in the movie even though it is a really slow movie. I think if you are tired and you want to watch a movie to fall asleep, this is the right one. If you are an architect, you would like this movie, regarding the buildings and the things they say about them. Mariana and Martin do an illegal window to have openness in their condos. This movie is sad and melancholic, but at the end everything goes as expected. Mariana and Martin met in a funny way, chatting each other without knowing themselves on the internet. They liked each other and everything ends up happy, being a romantic movie.

This film sidewalls was quite interesting, showing the lives of two individuals before they meet each other. What I think I enjoyed most was the shots they displayed of the buildings in the city, and different views and angles you wouldn't normally see, or consider. I liked how they showed their two paths crossing throughout the movie before they actually met, like when they were both standing at the crosswalk and their hoods formed a heart, that was cool. It was interesting watching a film in a different language, because it's not normally something I would do, and without subtitles I would have absolutely no idea what was really going on, which is the interesting thing about language, because to one group it really means something and you can communicate with it, but if you don't know it, its just different sounds. Though I found some of the scenes to be somewhat random, and not really contributing to the story at all, which is fine, but also a little confusing. The film itself was also quite saddening honestly, which I think was the point in a way. Showing the modern day sadness and isolation of the internet, "connecting" with others but not really connecting, and just feeling alone and depressed. It's definitely not something I would watch again, but I'm glad I saw it.

Its maybe strange to title the comment on this way, but this beautiful movie made me exactly that impression. Watching this movie from second grade European country was enlightening thing to do. It show me that on a different continent on different hemisphere on planet Earth, but in a same time, people live with a very same problems as I and my countryman do. Everyone become more and more isolated, people get estranged, while we more and more zip ourselves in our concrete beehives. And a exit from that darkness is simple. We need more light. Not of those artificial but those natural, God given, Sun light. There was a lot symbolic in act of braking a hole in a wall in one movie segment. Best recommendations.