I knew nothing of this film when I sat to it – it was just a link off another film that I had watched and I decided to give it a go since it was quite short. Not knowing even what type of film it was, I found myself quite drawn into it. The character of Jake seemed the "normal" guy representing the viewer but the real draw was Adam. The majority of the film consists of a ramble on the subject of lines, parallel lines, perpendicular lines and it is delivered with a soundtrack that suggests oddity. Now at this point I wasn't sure if it was meant seriously or if I was heading towards a punchline (think Christopher Walken in Annie Hall) but I was really quite engaged by it. The shot selection is good here even if the video quality was a little too rough for my tastes. However, all through this I was liking the film and felt the atmosphere was well done.
Unfortunately the film has to ruin itself by going for an ending that suggests all of this was meant to be meaningful or profound in some way; I honestly felt viewers were expected to turn to one another and the end and say "whoa, that was deep" even though it was nothing of the sort. The ending is a real let-down – at worst it is pompous and at best it is just not very good. An interesting monologue well-delivered then, but the film can't do better than it and indeed the end ruins what good work they did.
Unfortunately the film has to ruin itself by going for an ending that suggests all of this was meant to be meaningful or profound in some way; I honestly felt viewers were expected to turn to one another and the end and say "whoa, that was deep" even though it was nothing of the sort. The ending is a real let-down – at worst it is pompous and at best it is just not very good. An interesting monologue well-delivered then, but the film can't do better than it and indeed the end ruins what good work they did.