(Flash Review)
This is a peculiar, complex and confusing film to sort out. The core story is a sleep deprived hotel concierge encounters a strange man late at night at work who spews thoughts about regular life being part of the cycle of 'the machine' and the need to live off the grid to be 'free'. The sleep deprived man also has a wife and young child which is hard on him as he works nights. The lack of sleep and this strange man hints that this man may be his inner psyche personified. This nameless man generates fear over the end of the world; an "inversion" where the world turns upside down at the moment if Y2K (year 2000). During the main story, there are two other sub stories with the protagonist as a heavily bearded man wandering the woods; perhaps now 'free' as well as him stranded on a boat in the sea or ocean. The film has a unique at appropriate soundtrack, melancholy colors and very good cinematography and solid acting from the main character. Overall, these stories slowly unfold while laced with symbolism which are hard to clearly comprehend at first pass.
The oddest moment, of many, is the scruffy man in wilderness story is scavenging a hotel kitchen for supplies WHILE having called into a phone sex line. Who writes that stuff? So random.
This is a peculiar, complex and confusing film to sort out. The core story is a sleep deprived hotel concierge encounters a strange man late at night at work who spews thoughts about regular life being part of the cycle of 'the machine' and the need to live off the grid to be 'free'. The sleep deprived man also has a wife and young child which is hard on him as he works nights. The lack of sleep and this strange man hints that this man may be his inner psyche personified. This nameless man generates fear over the end of the world; an "inversion" where the world turns upside down at the moment if Y2K (year 2000). During the main story, there are two other sub stories with the protagonist as a heavily bearded man wandering the woods; perhaps now 'free' as well as him stranded on a boat in the sea or ocean. The film has a unique at appropriate soundtrack, melancholy colors and very good cinematography and solid acting from the main character. Overall, these stories slowly unfold while laced with symbolism which are hard to clearly comprehend at first pass.
The oddest moment, of many, is the scruffy man in wilderness story is scavenging a hotel kitchen for supplies WHILE having called into a phone sex line. Who writes that stuff? So random.