Fascinating meditative film

Rating: 7/10 (20 February 2017)

I begin with saying that the best part about this film are the single star rated reviews. Some of them are so hilarious and I can relate to them. The thing with this film is to treat it as a meditative medium on notions such as past, present and future (time and space)where they seem to merge, where one is to appreciate the present and let go of the future, on our bonds that unite us or divide us as humans etc. In this regard I found it spiritual and serene. Apparently the director goes for this approach because even with some tension that arises during the film, this is dealt deftly and 'outside' the canvas so that any excitement is squashed before our mind registers what is going on. I did get frustrated sometimes especially in the first half with the dialogue which is very absent and sometimes unintelligible and not revealing and the silence that permeates the film, minimal soundscore, characters are not developed and seem to be in a permanent state of suspension. But then I reckoned this is that type of film, where one has to let go any preconceptions and just absorb with what is going on on screen . That way I enjoyed it and kept me thinking afterwards