Not the brightest screenplay. Poor dialogues and confusing elements all the way. There are references of 70s brazilian softporn movies and some of european art movies.
The characters don't have charisma although the actors played well. It's just poor written.
The sound (which shoud be the core of the movie) is really bad. Sometimes the characters can't be understood and for many of the spectators who suffers from tinittus, the sound effects doesn't make justice (learn from Sound of Metal (2019)).
It was a boring experience. Not an agonizing plot as I expected.
The positive things: the camera angles and the art direction.
Tinnitus
2022 [PORTUGUESE]
Drama / Horror / Sport
Plot summary
Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
April 02, 2023 at 06:15 PM
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Top cast
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Weak
Is it a pays-to-watch movie?
In essence, Tinnitus (2022) serves as the prime example to discourage people going to theater, instead one should watch such a movie on a preferable device to conveniently fast forward it. I just finished it before finishing up my dinner, I highly recommend you to do so to avoid completely wasting your time. This way you still have some time left to check out another movie, hopefully watchable.
I'm glad that I could use the arrow key on my keyboard to fast forward this movie, otherwise it would have been a chore to use something else. Thus I'm giving it one solid star based on this personal merit.
All in all, glad I've finished it in 15 minutes, I might consider to generously give one more star if it pays to watch, be warned.
As stated elsewhere, this is not horror.
It is an arthouse psychodrama like Bergman's Persona. But it's long, slow, overwrought and devoid of real tension.
I mean the plot centers around a synchronized diver who bails on her partner when she develops tinnitus and balance issues that affect her athletic goals. (Or is she making it up and just crazy?) She takes a gig as a fake mermaid at a tourist attraction but then wriggles her way back into competitive diving. Her old partner is a total nightmare about it. They argue A LOT. It gets tedious. I mean very tedious.
There is a part about Japanese culture and an analogy using kintsugi. But that is about the only thing of interest in the whole movie.
Oh yeah, and first diving lady gouges out her own eardrums. The end.