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wow.
my minds going to be spinning for a while on this. that, to me, is a good thing.
this isn't pop fluff by any means. its a total mindf*&K.
the basic story as best as i can make it out at the moment. a play writer hits a high with his newest play; reviews are great. but his wife doesn't seem to care (maybe she's been left out of his world too long, maybe she's stuck in her own, maybes she's a bit crazy). and then a pipe on the sink sends a piece rocketing onto his head, and hes all bloody...a hospital visit turns up more problems and more and more. meanwhile the bump on the head may be more than just a bump. he might be dying...but in fact he seems to be living in the moment now...but obsessing over a new script. writing/planning that new play is the bulk of this movie. and it starts simple enough; he, on his wife's critique as she's leaving him, tells him that its meaningless to do a production of someone else's play that he must do something truthful. so he begins to work on a play about his true life... then things start to get weird. obsessive at first, then outlandish. at the point were someone shows up to play a person within the play...you're beginning to see how this world he's creating is beginning to loop on itself. and with a grant to work on this project he expands it...more stories about more people...more places needed...more people needed...people to play the people who are playing people...a warehouse for space...a warehouse inside a warehouse.... and then it becomes clearer that this is spanning time...larger chunks of time....its becoming a microcosm...yet in turn is becoming less attached to any reality (the one point that i feel this movie missed on a bit..they should have let it get really wacky and fall into chaos...i guess the choose to stay with the 'real' vignette).
a must watch. there are errors in here but it doesn't matter so much as the story grasps at so much and delivers pretty damn well. its a gem in an otherwise bland industry (movies).
i do feel the end get bogged down...almost like the took the whole thing a bit too far. and the very end gets a bit preachy...which was unnecessary.
this is definitely not for everyone. and expect to be lost here and there...and confused on who is who or who they are playing now.
frankly i don't have all the answers (was eric ever real or not?)...and i don't feel like i need them either. i enjoyed the chaos of this creation.
(9/10)
9/10
