charchuk

It's undeniably powerful and beautiful, but I almost wish it had more balls. The opening scenes with the nearly unbearable point-of-view is so intense and remarkable and original that part of me really wanted it to remain like that for the entire film, perhaps with a few surreal dream sequences interspersed. As difficult and frustrating as an entirely POV film would be, I kinda wanted one when the film began. Instead, the POV is slowly phased out, and the film became more of a Godard/WKW love child, though it's not nearly as interesting or original as that image implies. Though I can understand what the film was going for, with the dream sequences breaking out of the prison that the rest of the film was trapped in, this really would've worked better had all the hospital scenes been strictly POV, which they were not. The juxtaposition between the uncomfortable, interior, present scenes and the alive, colourful, past scenes is key to what the film's going for, and I think it just missed the mark by chickening out and not going all out on the POV.

Still, it's an innovative, imaginative ride, despite its rather depressing story.