This is one of those movies that you stumble upon while streaming surfing and see Marisa Tomei, and if you love Marisa Tomei - as I do - you decide you'll give it a chance. Then as you continue to watch and see Tomei's great performance and a number of psychologically provocative scenes you begin to wonder "Wow.. this movie is great.. How come I've never heard of it."
And so .. yes.. watching this movie is like watching a train wreck.. and as the viewer desperately tries to sort out what's real and what's not real you can't help but want to see this movie to the end for the "reveal" that explains it all.
Unfortunately, the "reveal" was a huge let down. I was super enjoying the movie up to that point.. but then the bottom dropped out. And then at that point I now understood how this movie got relegated to the straight-to-video realm.
Sadly, this is the kind of movie that one could argue is "critic-proof" because nothing "needs" to make sense and large plot holes can be "forgiven" because none of it has to make sense in a fundamentally crazy mind. Very convenient.. right?
I was ready to give the movie is "7" or "8" but downgraded it wholly because of the ending.
