Believably portraying subjective experience we haven’t known ourselves is one hallmark of great art. I haven’t seen “The Father,” but it sounds like it aspires to meet that mark. From your description, it surpasses all the cheesy depictions of drug hallucinations film makers have been foisting on us for 50 years.
Movies seldom exploit visuals and body language in the way actual communication takes place, and mood too often shades how we see the world. From your description it sounds like this could have more of those elements than simply putting a man an ill-fitted suit to make him look less confident or glasses on the intellectual sister.
Believably portraying subjective experience we haven’t known ourselves is one hallmark of great art. I haven’t seen “The Father,” but it sounds like it aspires to meet that mark. From your description, it surpasses all the cheesy depictions of drug hallucinations film makers have been foisting on us for 50 years.
Movies seldom exploit visuals and body language in the way actual communication takes place, and mood too often shades how we see the world. From your description it sounds like this could have more of those elements than simply putting a man an ill-fitted suit to make him look less confident or glasses on the intellectual sister.