A delightful cat's cradle of a movie

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2015)

Everything is connected, what more can I say? Pay close attention and watch the Kansas City Shuffle take shape, twisted thread by twisted thread.
This is a movie buff's, cult sort of movie, not an ordinary Joe's six-pack and bag of chips sort. The sets are ugly. They have found some of the world's most horrifying wallpapers and room dividers for a thank-God-never-was sort of 70's yuck! feeling. I think the set designer should get a prize for extravagant awfulness. Excellent actors who bring warmth and depth to precisely limited roles. The dialogue is laden with clues and irony. "It's what they called back then a drugstore handicap." Whole movie right there, but you won't notice until 3 am in the morning of the night you watched it. The sort of movie you watch a second, third and fourth time with increasing pleasure as you see how it all fits together.