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| Masterful Illustration by Kevin Tong |
There are two reasons to watch this movie:
- Films are just not made with this level of`clarity of vision anymore, largely because doing so involves the creator to be so thoroughly involved with every aspect of the film that most directors just can't do it.
- It is really well done: It is well written. The music is evocative, distinct, even eerily part of the plot. Visually the film balances between the self-indulgently artistic and the mundane. The editing, impeccable. The acting, honest.
I first saw this film at midnight in Vienna. It took me an hour of turning it over in my mind before I could fall asleep that night. I spent the next day thinking, asking, pushing what I had understood. Afterwards whenever I mentioned it as a film for people to watch they laughed at me and threw twinkies at me on my bike like that recurring nightmare I had in college.