honestly, i was blown by this movie. blown at how effortlessly good it is. i wished i had seen it earlier, and since in my home we are having a ryan gosling marathon (my film critic siblings and i, 6 of us so that's a lot of opposite opinions) my brother offered to show this movie from his collection.
wow. the kind of cinematography i see in photographs being put in moving pictures is just exhilarating. seriously i've never seen anyone do this, not even david lynch or guillermo del toro. i love the seemless transitions between scenes (i saw a bit of such transitions being applied in sliding doors (1998)), the details, the effortless acting that makes the movie flow despite the audience being presented with contradictions one after another.
dreams, or the last seconds in our lives, that fleeting moment before the lights go out, when that is all the time we have to make sense of our lives. this is not a must watch, rather, a-please-watch. it is so good.
i am pleased that hollywood still makes movies like this, in between the litter of action crap and unfunny romantic comedies we are being bombarded with everyday.
