Random, though-provoking, pretentious film

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2005)

I mean, to call the movie, "pretentious" in the best sense of the world. The director is keenly aware of his motives for the film, and while the vignettes seem non-sensical and random, they seem to have an all encompassing thread stringing the skits together.
I read some of the reviews, which many of them said that they were amazed at how pointless but similar the conversations were that the characters had to real life. And I think that that's the key, which is put in an eloquent fashion and echoed several times in the movie, by several different characters: "Nikola Tesla perceived the earth as a conductor of acoustic resonance" - the theme, I suppose of the entire movie.
There really is no plot to this film. You never really know which story is the last one, but there is a sense of finality in the last skit. It shows "slices-of-life," and perhaps, intends to showcase the idiosyncrasies and insecurities of all people, such that we are not alone in our feelings and demonstrates the human continuum.