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The other reviewers aren't giving this movie enough credit. It's an excellent script with good solid performances, well-directed and well-shot. My wife and I saw it on Kanopy and we both liked it a lot. It had been on our watchlist for a long time. While my wife was out of town, I was scrolling through our watchlist and there was a couple of times when came to this movie and I thought, we're never going to watch this, I might as well delete it. And I started to...but then I thought, better not, we might want to watch it at some point. I'm glad I didn't delete it. Yes, it's an anti-war movie set during three different wars, with the same actors/characters being carried over. I think the writer/director did a first-rate job of conveying what it was he wanted to say. Give it a shot.

Mesmerizing. Hypnotic. Sumptuous. Enthralling. Mysterious.

For those who say they don't like it because it's so enigmatic as to be boring: think of it as a Twilight Zone episode. (Not literally.)

Jean-Paul Sartre has a stage play called No Exit, two people caught in hell, with a demonic bellboy, and the man says, "Hell is other people."

There's an image of Alfred Hitchcock in this film, off to the right in the shadows in one shot, easy to miss. Take it as a hint.

Orson Welles said film is a ribbon of dreams. This movie is a dream that folds back in on itself over and over. It's a symphony of images.

I like the reviewer's title, posted in 2014, saying this is a filmic realization of the Uncertainty Principle . I also like the reviewer's references to Dali and the Persistence of Memory.

Do you like the work of M. C. Escher? You'll like this movie.

Magnificent filmmaking. Bears repeated viewings. Infinite gratitude tendered to the filmmakers.

The first hour of this story, right from the first shot, drew me in, slowly but surely. There's very little dialogue, and the performances of the two central characters are captivating. West Liang as the leading man is a compelling screen presence. He's got a rough, James-Dean like quality, but he's the kind of actor who could also play the bad buy, so there's a hero-or-villain tension. Into the mix steps the mysterious and appealing Amy Tsang, who knows how to say--and hint at--so much without using words. The two of them turn in excellent work. In the second hour the mystery expands and deepens. Criticizing the movie for being Lynchian is wrong-headed. The Ryan Gosling film, Lost River (2014), was criticized for being Lynchian without Lynch. So what? Is Lynch (one of my favorite directors) the only filmmaker allowed to make movies like this? A useless argument, in my opinion. Silent River tells a good story and keeps you involved. The music by Brian Ralston and cinematography by Norbert Shieh are essential components of the fabric of this story. Recommended. A double bill of Silent River and Lost River would make for a riveting evening of cinema.