Amazing

Rating: 7/10 (19 June 2020)

A truly original film. It boggles the mind how Kuafman came up with all of this. There is also real heart in this film. Struggle, belonging, feeling alive, hopes and dreams. It touches them in a close and personal way.
For the first 30 minutes of this film I thought it was reaching depths of truth and shining a mirror up to us all in a beautifully strange way, and with humour and heart. If it had continued on that arc it would be a 10/10.
I loved the tiny ceilings of Lester corp and the surreal office place set up. It nails what the culture of corporate america actually is, a strange compartmentalised faction of reality.
The negative: I just didn't like the love triangle arc that it ended up taking - I don't know what it was trying to show. There was no growth of character there was no complex conclusion. You could think about the set up of the film as being an ingenious way to explore this being questions about what it is to be being human, but then it almost felt like the set up devices ended up taking away from the human questioning side. Plot stole form meaning.
Still, a dazzling film and I feel a bit mean giving it a 7.