9/10
A modern Kafka
14 October 2009
Warning: Spoilers
The film depicts a society where the Dictionary has replaced the Bible and everything is striped down to the bare fact, rejecting everything that is human. The main character is a policeman tormented by the remains of humanity buried deep inside him. The system perceives his internal struggle as a potential danger and comes hard on him to "cure" his "desease" once and for good. Alongside this former human, the audience is absorbed into this surreal atmosphere, where even poetry's right to exist is questioned. Humans are robot-like beings, with no real personality, and the cinematography could not have been other than bare simple and static. It's an art film, not easily accessible, but it stays with you long after you left the theater.
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