[Kitsa]

There's this one movie called Taste of Cherry (no, it's not porn). It's Iranian, a little over 10 years old, and people like to throw it out there as this intellectual gold standard. If you don't like it, you must not get it, you know? Yeah, I don't want in the clubhouse.

It's boring. It's so boring. To me, it's just this side of Andy Warhol's Empire. A man is trying to find someone he can trust to bury him after he suicides, that's the point of the movie, and things get to a rip-roaring start with a shot of a guy driving around and around and around and around what looks like a desert construction site. Around and around and around and around, just the camera on this guy and the background out the window, and NOTHING is going on. For a very long time.

I watch a lot of foreign films, and I'll put up with a lot, but Taste of Cherry was too much. I fell asleep twice trying to watch it, then after I watched it and remained unimpressed I gave up on it altogether.