Pure Posturing.

Rating: 7/10 (4 October 2001)

This is a movie I would put in the category with Fight Club and the Usual Suspects. Not great movies, but elevated to that level by the proud-to-be-out-of-the-mainstream crowd. Those people who are in with popular alternative culture. This movie has an interesting gimmick and is pretty amusing, but that is all. It is only good for two viewings. One to be surprised, and a second to review it and say "hmm, that was pretty clever". I don't think this fakes insights into humanity in so much as it has had them thrust upon it by it's rabid fans, who like to justify their worship with some deeper, albeit nonexistent meaning. This film throws out little morsels of meat to that crowd for them to chew on rather than offering a whole meal of an actual moving experience. I was actually a little maddened by the ending, because without it's gimmick, there was no movie. As I said though, it was pretty entertaining. 7/10.