a "Crime and Punishment" for our times, timed backwards.

Rating: 10/10 (19 August 2001)

"A strange period began for Raskolnikov: it was as though a fog had fallen upon him and wrapped him in a dreary solitude from which there was no escape. Recalling that period long after, he believed that his mind had been clouded at times, and that it had continued so, with intervals, till the final catastrophe. He was convicned that he had been mistaken about many things at that time, for instance as to the date of certain events. Anyway, when he tried later on to piece his recollections together, he learnt a great deal about himself from what other people told him. He had mixed up incidents and had explained events as due to circumstances which existed on in his imagination."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
This film is brilliant. We choose what we choose what we condition ourselves to remember what we remember. It's a perfect metaphor for Nazi Germany. It's a sly and intelligent emulation and manifestation of the Raskolnikov archetype in literature, the man lost in his world, in his thoughts, in his life which is spiraling out of control, and what he must do...
You'll want to see this twice.