perfect paranoia

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 1999)

I was really taken with this film. Everything about it appealed to me, the intriguing plot, the camera work, the high-contrast black and white, and the music (wow, the music). The most everyday situations were somehow full of menace, and ordinary people seemed malevolent. This movie makes you experience the paranoia of the main character from the inside. The music was incredible, featuring some great electronic bands. There were songs I recognized, but they were blended perfectly into the score, so that the whole movie had a constant flow, rising and falling in intensity with the action (and sometimes stopping so abruptly it makes you jump). Some of the other comments here criticize the movie on the basis that the "science" behind the theme (psychology and mathematics) is flawed, but if it were based in fact, explaining real, known theorems, it would lose its mystery. The great thing about movies is that they allow us to escape from mundane reality. Until someone makes a documentary this cool, I'll take the flawed logic any day.