Summertime (2015)

I had an idea what this movie was about so, I delved into it. Unlike most movie viewers, I have no problems with watching what would be called, foreign movies, me being Irish and living in Ireland.Just because a movie is in English, doesn’t make it good. And, just because a movie is in one of the other 200+ languages, doesn’t make it bad.On the whole, the movie was good, if a little haphazrd. At times, while the mainstream of the movie was upheld, the sides were all over the place. This didn’t help to create a coherent narative.What caused it to lose, on a personal basis was, the penultimate scene at the railway station.Why were the two main characters standing on the wrong platfrom? Then, the focal character runs over the platform bridge, to arrive at the “correct” platform, when both are supposed to be “running away”?So many faults, in a short period of time, took away from the overall raison d’etre of the movie. At least there is comfort in that, the time difference between the release of the movie, and the era it portrayed, and now, 2022: what the movie was puporting, is in fact, a reality, for many, today.