Sick Product of a Sick System

best movie i've ever seen.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Well, this is kind of an odd movie. A group of people, all in some kind of emotional turmoil, meet and as the movie evolves you find out that they all have something in common. Now, I'm not good at interpreting stuff and I'm not sure if I've got this one right. But nevertheless it has touched something deep inside me. This movie is so beautiful, depicting the chaos on the inside of supposedly normal people. It has great acting, beautiful pictures and a touching story. Finally a movie without the usual drama and love stories.If you are looking for something out of the ordinary, something unique, I will recommend this movie.

This film was so boring it made me fall asleep, literally. I was fully aware beforehand that I was about to embark on what might be a seriously hard-core drama, which I was in the mood for. I will give it big kudos for acting, direction and cinematography. Some scenes and camera work are borderline stunning. I also found this film to be rather confusing. In the beginning it's fragmented like a psychological thriller, giving us bits and pieces of the characters lives and apparently how all are intertwined, or will be. But the extreme subtlety of the story dragged the exceptional acting through the mud, making any kind of interest or connection between the characters and viewer almost non-existent. I liken this film to watching the watercolors of a Claude Monet painting dry, you know the end result will be something visually extraordinary but the process getting there isn't engaging at all. When I woke to realize the DVD had ended, I had no desire to resume where it had left off.

A very deft and competent work given the experience and budget of the production team. The script didn't seem all that easy to work with, but a fine group of actors seemed to find it's pitch and pace. Coupled with a sweet little soundtrack, it triggered a few Hal Hartley flashbacks. Not that there's anything wrong with that. The photography really was extraordinary. A very complete palette was found in some fairly mundane locations creating an effect that was at times both rich and bleak simultaneously, somewhat like a Russell Banks short story. Not that there's anything wrong with that either. Frankly there's not much wrong with this film at all and it should stand up well when viewed a few times.

Its a really deep movie if you miss any thing or you wont understand whats going on. Its an off beat drama about an ex school teacher Finn who goes around selling encyclopedias not the whole set but 1 book at a time, he is searching for the meaning of why after a student kills himself in front of him. it got off to a slow start I wasn't sure if I was gonna like it at first but as it went on I started to like it better by the end of the movie I loved it! Theirs a lot of twist and turns in it, each person is connected to each other in away. At first I couldn't figure out the guy that was following the Drifter around he didn't say a word and no one other than Finn could see him, it turned out he was the ghost of the Drifter dead brother. I don't want to give to much of the movie away so this better be it before I tell everything that went on and give it all awayI got to meet Ian Somerhalder after the showing in Denver