Written and Directed by: Daniel Brothers
It's a hypermodern masterpiece. It's the modern Pulp Fiction. This film makes you go gaga, because it keeps expanding your horizons of imagination of one side, and on the other side it also freaks you out about how the effect you've had while watching this film, is perhaps how we've been feeling with our overwhelming consumption of internet. While our attention spans are going down and down, this film comes to us like 'hold my beer' where sometimes we process what just happened after the scene is finished. Hyperreality is a very interesting concept that talks about how art imitates life, and after a point life starts imitating art (which is already an imitation/exaggerated version of life) and now art has to imitate life which is already an imitation of art which is already an imitation of life. A never ending loop. This film probably lands after 10 loops of art, life, art, life and so on.
In spite of the technical plot, about how they have to prevent something bad happening in the multiverse, the film works at a dramatic level too. It beautifully talks about dysfunctional family, by her daughter being one of the antagonists, the divorce with her husband and it also talks about existentialism with the subplot of the IRS officer. I'm just blown by how this film talks about a lot, a lot, a lot and yet it sticks to its style and form. After a point, I started wondering if talking about a lot of things was also part of the style of the film. This is probably the most original film I've seen since Super Deluxe. It's not a derivative of any existing art forms, it's in fact an integration of existing art forms and non-existing art too. Films like this will influence a lot of art that's going to come by. So let's get ready for a lot more films, shows, music videos that just make us go, 'what were they smoking?'
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