Our Day Will Come

OUR DAY WILL COME (2010) - Sept. 13, 2010
Seriously pretentious and almost criminally self-indulgant, this was an inscrutable mess of a film, with characters who do odd things seemingly just for the sake of being odd.  I thought that perhaps it was all supposed to be a metaphor or an allegory for something, but the Q&A with the director after the film seemed to indicate that it was all supposed to be taken at face value.  If that's the case, seriously, why did the characters do pretty much everything they did in that film?  Why did these two strangers just randomly decide to take a road trip together?  Why did they go nuts and start murdering people at the end?  The whole thing just made me mad, because the director obviously has a fair amount of talent (or at the very least, a keen eye for visuals), but he seems to have little to no interest in making a coherent film, and in fact seems to want to thumb his nose at anything resembling convention just for the sake of being different.  1/2*