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I hated this picture. It is extraordinarily simple-minded fluff - it comprises an unspeakably dull montage of family talismans, pets, children playing and time-lapse photography of a family home. That’s it. Nothing else, and they’re replayed a few times. Of course, these are undoubtedly precious memories for those whose family these are. It means nothing to an outsider.

To lend some attempt at visual excitement, the photographer’s bag of tricks comes out - blending double exposures, strange colour treatments, and something that looks like each frame has a stack of Photoshop filters applied with pseudo-randomised mutators for each frame. Ultimately this seems to convert someone else's memories to someone else's acid flashbacks.

The only real note I made was “Won’t this picture ever end?” It’s on for 27 minutes. You can run out and smoke half a pack of cigarettes in that time. Worth considering.