Depressing almost worst kind of Russian Nihilism about it

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2016)

There are no real specific spoilers in the following review just theme description and trajectory
The films seems shot in 'depressocolour' why they insist on washing such films out, to such a degree of dismalness I'll never know, you can use luridity to represent the main theme of paranoid delusion just as well, Bales skeletal weight loss - makes you uncomfortable and scritchy just looking at him on screen, the filmic attention and sound draw inspiration from hitchcocks work but here's something evocative of the Russian gulag about this film, makes you wonder whether the source is drawn the worst period of Russian history, which doesn't seem to match the setting of American culture.
If your life is so full of light, that you can handle films this gloomy then drag through it, The plot has some twist but none but a few seem too unpredictable, prosaic plot path sinkhole plunge of it all but the final reveal is alright and reasonable, in its defence the acting is very good if a little turgid on the spectrum of personality types displayed. for me there are allot of other films to watch first before getting round to this, but worthy of attention at some point.