William Dafoe plays a man battling his demons of his parents and his past in a dreamy dark surrealism film. It's like a visual dark poetry where you don't take what's on the screen literally, but you try to interpret them. Much like you might interpret a nightmare to understand what it means.
This dream world is fascinating and disturbing. Just don't try to make literal understanding of it. It's an artsy fantasy-horror film.
The problem that I had with the film was the foreign language scenes that had no subtitles. I wanted to know what Dafoe, the indigenous man, and the Russian women were saying at his bar. I could not find subs for those non-english speaking parts so I felt I missed much of those scenes. Some of it you can infer by what happens on the screen, but I would have liked to understand the conversation.
Anyway, if artsy fantasy-horror films isn't your forte then this film might not be for you. But I do like these imaginary sublime worlds captured on film and go with it.
I have an appreciation for high creativity. It seems William Dafoe like making these kinds of films too.
This dream world is fascinating and disturbing. Just don't try to make literal understanding of it. It's an artsy fantasy-horror film.
The problem that I had with the film was the foreign language scenes that had no subtitles. I wanted to know what Dafoe, the indigenous man, and the Russian women were saying at his bar. I could not find subs for those non-english speaking parts so I felt I missed much of those scenes. Some of it you can infer by what happens on the screen, but I would have liked to understand the conversation.
Anyway, if artsy fantasy-horror films isn't your forte then this film might not be for you. But I do like these imaginary sublime worlds captured on film and go with it.
I have an appreciation for high creativity. It seems William Dafoe like making these kinds of films too.