Misunderstood. Beautiful. Intimate.

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2019)

This film has created an awful lot of confusion here. There is no arguing that the film is a masterpiece. I think where the confusion lies is in the nature of the film. It is not strictly a sci-fi despite having been sold as such. The film uses sci-fi and horror to tell an intimate, human story of change and growth through allegory. If you do not like films that explore metaphysics or philosophical questions through allegory (the fountain, black swan, 2001) then you may very well dislike or misinterpret this film. The people here identifying 'logical' holes in the film have completely missed what the film is doing. Any focus on realism here is moot. The practicalities are irrelevant. This is a classical use of tropes to test and examine motivations along the lines of Samuel Beckett etc. This is not classical sci-fi and if you are not prepared to let go of your relationship with typical films and probe the human questions being presented then you'll at the very least miss the intention of the film. Even if you don't want to examine the film's message, just let go of your preconceptions and rules and enjoy what is a beautiful film.