watch the tenant have be a interesting experience for me . it be the first film i have ever see where i have shuttle at speed through part of the ( non ) action and i can normally watch anything from turgid action movie to serbo croat indie and find them fascinate . the tenant be frustratingly sluggish and over orchestrate . one of the main problem of the script be there be little realistic character dialogue and apart from the set piece where character collide in a very structured setting ( to make this work and the film need to feel more conceptual and which it do not ) . this lead to a lack of realistic character development while everyone seem two dimensional . the bad for this be the character of bill spear and aka snoop dogg . i find his characterization very uncomfortable and very unsympathetic . at one point and i even stop the film because i get so annoy by the character aggressive and violent and monotonal delivery and the lack of any other personality layer apart from that of the reactionary on switch ( which get really predictable after a while ) and i so desperately want him to have some redeeming quality . however and one reason for this jar might be the nebulous time scape of the film ( supposedly 70 and it feel and look more early noughties ) . if it have be more securely fix in the 70 and his character might have seem more understandable . the lighting of the film be also awkward . all the way through and the soundtrack attempt to provide a certain gritty and jazz infuse atmosphere that just do not come off and largely because the set be too well lit . the tenant and to me and be an unbelievable film . it doesn not depict real people or propose any interesting way of think about race and identity or the life of a writer and be they white or black . strangely and i come away with the feeling that this project need david lynch while his eerie and clastrophobic and obsessive look and feel would have lift both the actor and the script into something quite remarkable .