yuzuruizawa

It is a sci-fi-esque movie, that we are promised in the beginning will have something about quantum physics and parallel words and mystery. As we can´t expect a lot of money and visual effects, the black and white photography with everybody smoking all the time tries to evoke a noiresque vibe in the 60s, with mystery and atmosphere.

But then it goes to shit. Stories have promises and have pay offs. But a lot of independent/artistic/alternative movies think that endings and explanations are for hollywood, so they will give us none.

So, promises are unkept, threads are forgotten or go nowhere, and things happen and are not explained so they are apparently "mysterious". When things "exchange places" it really doesn´t pay off to think about it, the director just wanted a little "twist"

In the prologue we are informed of the last 50 years of the character´s life, we learn that he is a despicable person who waste his life ignoring his wife and kid for the love a woman that he met for 20 minutes total, and who, by the way, he had zero chemistry and the character was super unlikable and uninteresting, the poor man´s femme fatale.

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As another reviewer said "Imagine sitting down to enjoy a movie only to be subjected to 90 minutes of internal monologue from the most demonstrably unstable comic convention attendees while incoherent video clips flash before your eyes." The movie is a big monologue about going crazy (that´s why obligatory comparisons with telltale heart). And some of it looked good and intriguind, but at some point it entails the question "is this going anywhere"?

At least to me the answer was no, so I kept pressing FF after the bird died. Not because of animal cruelty as it is just implied (I believe they killed a snail if this is too much death for you).

I press FF because it was clear it was not going anywhere. He would kill the bird, then a cat, then the neighbour. That was all the author had to say.

Unfortunately a lot of people tagged this as "lovecraftian" just because of some random mentions of "interdimensional creatures". But this is more evidence that there was not ennough of a story, so we have to fish wherever we can so we can say on the internet "maybe it WAS a lovecraftian story" An strange thing is that the main character is gay. Most of his ravings are very usual of internet mysoginistic Proud boys, ultra right wing, antivax, you won´t take my gun mid 30s straight boys, so I am a little confused about what was the point. Maybe it was a diversity hire. His rant about the attack on the gay bar in florida also have no conneciton to anything I saw I personally think that this is another evidence the authors had a main concept, but not exactly clear how to get there.