Painfully pretentious, with a healthy side of slow pacing, weak characterization, and a nonsensical 'story' if it can even be called one. The very worst aspects of 'magical realism' all rolled into one package.

It almost feels like some sort of inside joke where the people calling this a masterpiece are just pranking the rest of us by saying there's a deep and moving message here and that we 'just didn't get it'. A story doesn't need to be blatant, but at a certain point esoteric brilliance and vapid nothingness end up being indistinguishable from one another.