I feel the ?look? and lighting, or lack there of, hindered the telling of this story. Maybe this was an artistic choice between the director and dp...but I honestly feel it was a shallow decision to juxtapose the similarities of the ugliness, grittiness and all around dreary atmosphere of the characters, locations, circa and theme through the cinematography. It?s just to ?on-the-nose? and allows for sloppy filmmaking. And we wonder why so many people are going less and less to the theatres. We?re supposed to be craftsmen/women who specialize in the ability to create suspension of disbelief. The look of a film should not be so distracting?it pulls the audience out of the experience they?ve paid for.
