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Oct 11, 2019HollaLar98 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
In many ways, a film well done. I found it because upon a conversation about Carruth's first film, "Primer," someone recommended this as "more accessible." Umm... no. Sometimes we mistake a director's confidence to manifest a WAY-out-of-mainstream vision as brilliance. It IS brilliant in a way - the mood, the mystery, the general cinematography - but taking away from that is a plot nearly as undecipherable as a Jackson Pollock. But, unlike a Pollock, when the film ends, and you've said "WHAT??!" out loud, and then invariably (if you were invested) go to google it, you'll find the director DID have an interpretation beyond just splashing color (Easter egg in title?) onto a medium, and, armed with that information from the director, the movie is retroactively more enjoyable. So then it becomes a question of whether Carruth is being TOO "cute"/"brilliant"/"anti-establishment" by not bothering to give more actual clues in the film itself, or not having at least some kind of five-minute stretch at the end, that still could have been subtle, but would have helped you possibly realize more than 30% of the point before the credits rolled. I was watching with someone and we were out loud making our guesses at what the heck was going on. So I suppose that's "engagement." But I'm not sure that would have happened had I watched alone.