Crazy Diamond

Horrible. I had to watch it twice and still was like "Huh?" Finally, I came here to find out what was going on. I can usually understand these by the end but this one just left m confused. Thanks to the reviewers on this site, I figured it out. On to the next one.

Crazy Diamond seemed stretched at its one hour length not helped by its pedestrian pace and a thin story. Not even Steve Buscemi could save this.

The setting is a near future where food and vegetable instantly rot, there is coastal erosion at an extreme pace and there are artificial robots who look like real life humans known as Jack and Jill.

Buscemi plays Ed, he lives with his wife Sally. Ed is dreaming of adventure in the high seas to escape his house that is on the verge of falling down to the sea. He works in a scientific laboratory and likes to listen to vinyl records.

Things change when he meets a Jill who is dressed like a femme fatale. She is selling double indemnity life assurance and wants regenerative medicine as her life force is dying. Ed is swayed by her, Sally is worried about him and Jill attracts danger.

In some ways this had a similar theme to Blade Runner, a replicant that wants to extend its life.

Supposedly based on the Philip K. Dick short story, Sales Pitch, this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the story. Indeed, it is so far removed from it, I suspect the writer had some heist movie all written up and, with a few tweaks, passed it off as an adaptation.

Steve Buscemi plays a down-at-heel worker at a factory that makes artificial people. He is drawn into a conspiracy to steal from his employer, and things get twisty and violent.

Moderately distracting as a sort of sci-fi noir, but most people will have something better to do with their time than watch this.

Hey, here's an idea - read the Philip K. Dick story - it is actually quite good.

Came to see the reviews to try to understand what the hell I just watched. Parts of it were okay. The set was beautifully done, and the soundtrack great. But that's where it stops. I'm still trying to understand how everything ties together. Is this about consciousness? About salvaging relationships? Commercialism, production, global health, isolation/lonliness, reproduction, black market gangs, racism, sexism? I'm not quite sure because they touched briefly on all of these, but not enough to actually make sense in context. How does the puzzle fit? It felt like there wasn't a point to any of it, because there wasn't enough depth to anything. Just kinda skimmed the surface and left it hanging. There wasn't a connection between the plot points, or even chemistry between the cast. Not my favorite episode.

If it weren't for a fascination with Steve Buscemi I wouldn't have stayed with this. It's about a future where there is little food and some replicants called Jacks and Jills do the labor. Of course, with most artificial intelligence in sci fi, eventually they begin to rebel. I have little else to say. The plot is a mess and we aren't given enough information to really understand the world we are witnessing. Oh, who's in charge? What are the motivations?