Uncomfortably cold, linear, surreal, droning. Forced to walk in a march that always moves, never stops. Altogether difficult for me to say if it has much of, if any, point, but also difficult for me to say if it really needs one. The whole experience bleeds into you and even walking away from it to just think and rationalize the hell happens here leaves a powerful after effect. It's directed in such a gorgeous way to grab you, even if at many points I wondered where the rails were all going to and found my awful attention span drifting. My movie catalog experience is shit but I kept thinking of 2001 A Space Odyssey especially in terms of this movie's ending, in a positive manner I should say. The sort of thing where I left to go for a walk whispering "wow that was extremely cool actually."

You couldn't ask me to analyze this though because I keep coming up with threads and it leaves nothing to satisfy you with. There's musings on having your thoughts dictated and being led on, a biblical "escape the flood" smokescreen, so much populism, and of course a loose ubiquitous sense of time where images of what will happen and what probably did happen burning into the same afterimage. So cool tho

Reviewed on Jun 20, 2022


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