Perfect in its own way.

Rating: 9/10 (17 November 2019)

This movie is basically Forest Gump except even better. I'm not trying to c*** on Forest, he's awesome, but this brings something special.
A collage of bizarre encounters and experiences with a deft sense of comic timing though never quite losing a disquieting tone, this is a delightful weirdness trip that also has something unexpected up its sleeve.
It's not trying to touch the feels the way FG did. it's not meant to be Zeligesque or pseudo-historical, it's the gaiety of the tall story that uses narration as narration should be used; to supplement the picture, not as an excuse to not tell the story visually.
Not heavy, but with hard edge, this is a festival of anecdote telling first and a meditation on the blurring of fantasy and reality second. I personally don't do unreliable narrators and just take everything at face value. It's more enjoyable that way.
This is an understated movie that lets you follow it on your own terms. It's fun and has an ineffable poignancy of an unassuming sort that I rarely see.