It is one big Allegory, stupid!

Rating: 9/10 (17 December 2018)

Brilliant realization of the human story of oppression overlayed with (or, with layers underneath, if you prefer) of highly meaningful questions that cut to the core of our individual and collective western experience of life itself: the trappings, the mechanisms, and themes of innocence versus not so much, male and female roles in society, dominance versus submission, imprisonment versus freedom, the seen versus the unseen, reality versus the life of the mind, intolerance & mysogeny versus tolerance & celebrating female power, and so much more. Let go, and let it take you away, as it will be long in your thoughts, possibly even life changing. This film is what it means for cinema to BE an experience, for art and life to comingle, and for us to find a way out of our alienation from... anything and everything, especially our own selves,