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I think this is the most frustrated i've been with a movie in a long time. And that's a good sign. A film that is brimming with possibility, chasing its own tail at all times, false starts, false ends. Awkward turns to arrive at a shoulder shrug of a point, overstates itself but it's part of the formal center: tugging strings. Somnolent and hazy at times, with pacing that goes from delectable to erratic. The sped up frames, genre-esque punctuations,…
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This is my ideal Cronenberg movie. Maybe it's dramatically inert. Maybe it's convoluted. Maybe it's thin soup thematically. But it grows so much through images; there's a shot of a child's deformed organs in a sort of medley that communicated more than whole conversations. A lot of terminology is thrown around but it almost feels like self parody, and one gets the impression that none of it matters and he is letting go of sci-fi isms for…