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De Zee Die Denkt (2000)

Experimental | 100 minutes
3,10 69 votes

Genre: Experimental / Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Gert de Graaff

Stars: Bart Klever, Devika Strooker and Rick de Leeuw

IMDb score: 7,0 (586)

Releasedate: 20 December 2000

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De Zee Die Denkt plot

"I don't exist"

Experimental feature film about the expectations of movie viewers and the optical illusions they create in their own heads. Especially with images, De zee shows that nothing is what it seems. A man, known as the singer Rick de Leeuw, seems to wake up in a normal room and in street interviews passers-by are subjected to the trick question "what are you?" At the center is a screenwriter who is writing the script for 'De Zee Diet'. He types what he does and does what he types. Looking for the answer to the question "how do we become happy?" he shows by miraculous examples that our world exists only in our consciousness. During the film, the viewer becomes aware of their own expectations and it turns out that they are not looking at a film, but at themselves.

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Onderhond

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This concludes my short Dutch arthouse two-day event.

In concept, the film reminded me most of Pi. An idea that drives the main character to madness, visually designed. So much for the comparison.

Where Pi tries to disguise a poetic fact as science, this film tries to sell a poetic fact as philosophy. The film succeeds badly in this. Instead of the madness of the writer, most of the attention is focused on the idea. However, this idea is so flawed and banal that the film soon loses all its momentum and it becomes an excruciatingly slow nonsense.

The speaker is drowned in a barrage of literary illusions, cool one-liners and bad analogues, causing the nonsense to continue to pile up. The entire theory is based on one basic idea, but if this fails, there is nothing else interesting to be gained.

Visually there are some (a few) beautiful shots, the rest is unfortunately, although sometimes funny, very ugly. In addition, no attention seems to have been paid to the editing, which only makes the film even more ugly.

The biggest illusion in this film is the monologue disguised as philosophy, which is far too prominent throughout the film. What remains are some nice to beautiful shots, and a lot of misery.

1*

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gotti

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Pretentious and meaningless nonsense. Dropped off early.

0.5*

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wendyvortex

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Pfff this week at HollandDoc as part of a kind of brain week. Based on the descriptions in the guide and on MovieMeter, I thought I was going to get a nice brain fuck of almost two hours. But this reminds me more of a writer without inspiration who writes a book about a writer without inspiration.

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