Underrated Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2013)

I will put it bluntly. This is a fantastic movie with a multitude of spectacular messages. An interesting concept which comes together surprisingly well. The stories each have their own feel to them, yet all manage to connect into a coherent whole in the end. The score is fantastic and so is the make up. I enjoyed the way the movie is not afraid of providing possible solutions to the questions it posses. It acknowledges its own concept (for lack of a better word) multiple times within the stories, but each time it feels right. Just as us the viewers are beginning to try to connect a new plot point of one plot with the plot points of others, the movie subtly acknowledges this connection. Sometimes it will offer evidence at the right time, others it will allow the characters to hypothesis the possibility of a connection, thus queuing in the viewer to the connection. Overall, it is a deep, thought provoking movie that does not ram its message down your throat. If you can survive the assault of plot details in the opening of the movie, this 3 hour long epic feels like a brief but meaningful 90