Brilliant and horrible

Rating: 10/10 (22 September 2015)

An atmospheric, New Wave-style portrayal of obsession.
Jake Gyllenhall's portrayal of Leo Bloom is excellent. He is simultaneously quirky, intelligent, naive, dangerous, grounded and frighteningly insane. It's certainly difficult not to admire Bloom's vision and drive.
Meanwhile, Riz Ahmed deserves no end of plaudits for his pitch-perfect performance - sympathetic and hilarious.
James Newton Howard's soundtrack fits very well here in the same way it did in It Follows (and not in The Guest)
If I have one criticism, it's that the passage of time in between scenes sometimes catches you out - you don't know whether it's the next day or a couple of weeks later. But that's a minor niggle.
My wife summed it up very well: "I really liked it... but it's horrible!"
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