Finally, A Lucidity Pill... Nice Rush!

Rating: 9/10 (18 September 2005)

Someone commented that this movie was not political, but pure enjoyment. I'm so sorry for him. What I enjoyed about this film was seeing people around me waking to what is going on and and where we are while it's happening. If I had to sum it up in one word, I couldn't. It takes two: Brilliantly Educational.
I didn't go "10" on this because of several cliché' abuses (baby on runway, etc.). But there is a portal here in a point of view montage and throughout this film that says, "We do need to know, and care". It is a taste of real events served by the composite character "Yuri", that achieves a level of voyeurism desperately needed amongst the "yippee, Ki-Yay" narcotic candy affect of the action genre.
This film is one of many must-see films (Pink Floyd's The Wall, and American Beauty" come to mind...) that one should not declare them-self "breathing" without understanding the material presented. In a brilliantly woven screenplay seasoned with genius use of CG, we are lead through a part of our world we could not otherwise see through the mud of sheer mindlessness and greed that covers the lens, that shoots the talking heads, that read the scripts, that transform reality, into the sensationalistic news ratings war, that blocks the sun, from shining on what is really happening, as we cower from reforming our social consciousness and believing that something can be done.
Leaving this film left me with a small spark of an idea that maybe turning out in record numbers to vote is the wrong way to have our say. Maybe if there was an election and literally no one came, our countries would finally know that we really don't want to keep going down this same road, completely in the dark, to the BUSINESS of government.
If you want pure entertainment, eat candy. If you want to grow and feel a proud spark of accomplishment, plop your fat, numb brained butt in front of THIS screen! And when the shock passes, watch "thinking" sprout from a hearty seed that isn't just another stalk of popcorn. I know I'm glad I did.