Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The Couchpotatoes If I had to believe all the positive reviewers on here I would be watching masterpieces every day. And also for The Wall, whom for a lot of reviewers is a masterpiece apparently. But for me it isn't. Why? Because you don't get any explanation about the invisible wall around her. If there would have just been a little attempt to explain I would have scored it a six. And also if the woman in question that is trapped for so long would at least try something to pass the invisible wall by digging, looking how high it is or whatever but no none of that all happens. Instead you get a narrating voice of the woman in question during the entire movie. There is basically only one human character played by Martina Gedeck, and then you have her animals. The narrating voice teaches you a lesson in life. It's about loneliness, compassion, the meaning of life, pain, struggle, solitude and so on. Not bad but not enough to make it exceptional.

clewis2666 The best word to describe this film is "pretentious". That means that it is giving itself airs, claiming to say something important that we lesser mortals have not yet appreciated, and, in so doing, boring us to bits. (POSSIBILITY OF SPOILERS) I understood the film in the following way: the invisible wall is just a way of telling us that the woman had made the decision to cut herself off from the rest of humankind so that whenever she seemed to be wanting to approach someone her inner fear sprang up to restrain her. She has chosen to live alone, having marked out a large swathe of beautiful barely inhabited highland country wherein to live and have her being. She doesn't want to die. Even though she is intensely depressive, and very boring to watch and listen to her low-pitched whine, she gets to know the local animals and is pretty good at keeping herself alive. She bonds with a dog. She apparently has some isolationist experiences which may be valuable for her mental state, though they sound weird or trite to the ordinary viewer. But everything she offers is manna from heaven for art-house patrons and the superior sort of film critic, who would probably quite enjoy watching paint dry. This is similar to that, but it is better in that the countryside and the photography are lovely and worse than that in that there is the additional element of the miserably depressed woman. The couple who bring her to her cottage play ghastly pop music very loudly in their car, presumably a ham-fisted way of telling us, perhaps through her perception, how boorish they (or all other humans) are. Whether we see it as catharsis or denouement or, as I do, merely as confirmation of her hatred of mankind, we see in the final moments of the film that the one human who somehow manages to penetrate the wall is cruel and vicious and the woman, whose hatred of mankind may be seen as being responsible for creating this figure in her world, expresses that hatred and takes her revenge by being extremely nasty to him. End of story. Yawn yawn.

Dhyana D This movie is so deep that it will make you ponder on how we live today, in the big cities, disconnected from nature and our real nature.Here are some ideas from the movie: 1. We only stay with ourselves and look inside when life forces us to do so.2. Being alone is not loneliness. Loneliness is a state of mind. Being alone is taking time to know yourself and to find company in everything around.3. Nature is the greatest teacher and healer.4. Everything we need we can provide for ourselves.5. Inside everyone of us there's a strong being.6. Animals are a faithful and loving company.7. A quiet mind is the first step to ourselves.http://lotuspocusfocus.com/2014/02/movie-recommendation-the-wall/

phansen70 This is a film that has left such an impression on me that I was very curious what other viewers interpretations of it were. I felt the beauty and despair of loneliness. The connection humans can have with nature and above all... animals, our need for them not only to fill our void socially and emotionally, but as creatures to sustain our life in all ways. Even if to give us a purpose.The irony that she was there on a hunting trip with friend that she obviously was not partaking in, but had probably not thought much about . I appreciated that she really understood that hunting should only be for food and could not understand how any being could take pleasure out of death of an animal.The vivid beauty of Austria was captivating. This is a beautiful film that I will never quite forget. It has reminded me of how strong humans can be when they have to be to survive, how fragile we are, and how our brains have the capability to adapt to situations that are unexplainable when all feels hopeless.