Spli

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2004)

This may be an early example of the genre called Slipstream'.

Christopher Priest, the UK writer, termed the phrase. It describes this genre that attempts to move beyond the conventions of Sci-FI and Fantasy to tell stories. Other films would include Adaptation, books by J.G. Ballard and P.K. Dick. I think the lack of a recognized genre hurt this movie but, as usual, the audience is culturally light years ahead of the critics and it seemed well attended the day I was there better than you would believe from the bad reviews.
Critics could not read the movie and determine if it was not any good. But I thought was interesting example of a new "B" stream genre.