With a second watch I’m not sure if some of the flimsier connective tissue will meld—or float apart—but either way it’s a wildly innovative, intelligent, and aspiring film
While being wholly original (excited to see what Riley does next)—it has certainly has influences from everything to Gilliam (Brazil especially), Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), to Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!— Alex Cox is in there as well with Repo Man
It does go 20 different ways (detractors calling it “scattershot” and it does feel a little long for a 105 minute movie perhaps because of this) but its entertaining, political, allegorical and ambitious
Stanfield can for sure carry a film- he’s confident, funny—
The retro sci-fi anarchy is inspired and to be fair there are entire characters and sequences whose meanings don’t easily reveal themselves—but could with another watch
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