It's been six years since I've seen this film for the first time, screened at B2 of Cinerama during the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival. It still does not cease to amaze me.
First of all, the visuals are simply astonishing. The feeling of depth, space, the details of the textures, they are amazing. One shot, about two-third into the film, of falling rain, simply -must- be 'real', that good.
All in all, there are 'bad details'. Certain quite unbelievable coincedences, a man who disappears under a truck and never is his body seen again.
But watch the end and you either completely agree or completely disagree: this film and its story, it is not about exact, believable storylines and plots. It is an opera or a Shakespeare play: everybody knows the story, nobody doesn't mind the little tricks they tried to pull off, it doesn't matter. It is -how- they do it, -how- they show and tell the story.
Again and again, amazing.
