Long Day's Journey Into Night

Kino Lorber | Release Date: April 12, 2019

7.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Ratings

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TheFrogFeb 24, 2021

So, you are looking at those glowing reviews and thinking that maybe you'll have a go at this movie. Think again, it's not for everyone. Actually, it's almost for no one.
If you are familiar with David Lynch, just expect something similar.So, you are looking at those glowing reviews and thinking that maybe you'll have a go at this movie. Think again, it's not for everyone. Actually, it's almost for no one.
If you are familiar with David Lynch, just expect something similar. "Mulholland Drive" makes sense once you understand the core concept. "Inland Empire" does not make any sense whatsoever, it's just a sequence of oneiric sequences. "Long Day's Journey Into Night" sits somewhere in between. There is some semblance of a story, namely the search for a woman whom the protagonist loved years earlier, and some things even make some sense when put in the correct temporal sequence. Don't expect a conventional story anyway, the search is not as much for a physical woman as for an ideal that can never be found... or something. Dreams, reminiscences and maybe some real occurrences are indistinguishable (ok, I'd say that when the protagonist falls asleep in a cinema and wakes up in a mine, meeting a ghost shortly thereafter, it definitely does qualify as a dream).
Expect a lot of sequences that go nowhere, like a guy slowly eating an apple while crying. Scrap that, just expect the movie to go nowhere, you are in for the sequences. I guess to an artsy type, the aforementioned apple sequence could appear touching. Or the naked feet of a beautiful actress walking on a broken brick wall. Any number of dilapidated locales. The actor screwing a bulb into a lamp, in a flooded house. A house that is supposed to revolve if you pronounce the right incantation.
To me, it all looks like a dream where you are trying to do something but are constantly hindered and end up running in circles, there are few consistent rules and little to no sense in anything. Yes, I'll admit that the movie did manage to conjure some feeling now and then, hence the middling rating, but more than two hours lost in a dream is probably way too much for most people.… Expand

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