how does this man get backing?

Rating: 1/10 (27 September 2001)

This movie is an insult. Here is a director with half an idea for a movie, good actors, and probably plenty of financing. What does he do? He takes you for a pathetic, sophomoric ride (complete with not one, but two inevitable, gratuitous lesbian interludes) into arbitrary "weirdness" without making even a visual or psychological point, much less conveying any coherent plot. The message he does convey is this: "I'm so clever that I am going to subject you to an 'experience' which, if you are enlightened enough, you will understand, but since you are all so dumb, none of you will understand it." The result is the ironic fact that if there really is a point to this mess, the director obviously doesn't want to convey it, because he has obfuscated to the point of nonsense OR (surprise!) he really doesn't have a point at all, but would rather foist his vapid personal "vision" on the public in hopes that he will be able to continue making movies because he is so deep and misunderstood. I suppose his fans are the type that like to pretend there is something here to "get" and you don't get it, because it makes them feel intellectually superior. Don't buy in.