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Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Bayamon_Hill I saw this movie because it was on the LGBT list on Netflix. That's all I knew about it. That's all I know about it by the end. The movie has scenes of wilderness with someone speaking Portuguese, so I immediately assumed it was Brazil. It is only when we are introduced to two Chinese lesbians who don't know where they're at do I realize that the movie is set in the wilderness of Portugal. I didn't even know they had wilderness in Portugal. The girls' presence is explained simply enough, but their fanatical turn is the first of many absurdities that I couldn't follow. Sometimes the construction of shots are beautiful enough to sustain interest for a time, but by the time the topless Amazonian women speaking Latin make their appearance, I'm pretty much done. It helps to read the Wikipedia article on St. Anthony of Padua before watching the movie, as he is the patron saint of Portugal, of lost people and things, of animals, etc. Things make more sense, but not in a pleasing or interesting way. So I came looking for a LGBT movie about an ornithologist but got a bizarre allegorical tale about a Catholic saint who has sex and murders a shepherd names Jesus on his way to Padua in Italy. There's even hints of St. Sebastian imagery thrown in for good measure. Not good.

daoldiges It's kind of difficult to describe this film, but the one word that comes easily is frustrating. I am Catholic so I did get the religious references and but that was not enough to make this film worth the time or effort. The director peppered the action with random interesting developments spaced throughout, each getting my hopes up that some kind of story was developing, only to be disappointed each time. I'm happy that some viewers really seemed to enjoy this film, but unfortunately it was one frustrating disappointment after the other for me.

JoshuaDysart Imagine if Robert Bresson and Walerian Borowczyk were a single person, a synthesis filmmaker. Now imagine that person is gay. Now imagine that person had a fever dream. That dream would be "The Ornithologist". (If you understood that sentence we're soulmates).If you're in the market for a psycho-sexual erotic biblical parable that flirts with bondage, urination fetish, bestiality, and just good old fashion beautiful men rolling around naked on a beach, but, you know, all done in an artistically austere, under- emphasized way and then hazed into a hallucinatory mist of a story, then this is your jam right here.What did I think of it?I thought it was AWESOME!

demareephoto I have more Questions than answers for this movie? In some ways it is both sexy and weird, which is I assume the director wanted. Not being Catholic I had to read up on St. Anthony. Learning that he is the patron saint of Lost Things- tells me a lot.Our Main character Fernando is lost in the woods. He doesn't seem to concerned? After meeting our Chinese travelers they drug him and Hog tie him. Those gals must be into some heavy BDSM to know those knots? Later he encounters a deaf goat wrangler boy. After a sexy roll in the sand a confrontation happens. Fernando doesn't seem to fazed? Later after more travels he encounters some rowdy costumed men. Seems Fernando has a thing for Water sports too?Later after finding a white dove who seems to be his guardian angel follows him around. Fernando decides to burn off his fingertips so he has no fingerprints? Why? Is he thinking of killing himself? I have more WHY questions. ?? Any input ?