This starts off strong: strong dialog (and a dangerously enticing inner-monologue from the protagonist), good attention to detail and it also looks very good with plain yet poignant direction, and really gets its point across visually and aesthetically... the scenes are full with purpose and the goal seems driven with just the right emphasis and oomph. There's an interesting yet unsettling atmosphere of back and forth between sharp tension and utter smoothness. It's like buttery shaving cream but with crisp blades swinging from side to side out of nowhere, and all of a sudden, the snowy whiteness drips with organic brilliant red. It's also highly entertaining and not so busy with explaining its own concept that it makes for a boring old watch of going from point A to point B. There's a real characteristic dark humor that was obviously given legitimate time and balance to nail properly; a genuine spirit so to speak; and it doesn't come across as contrived or unnatural. It's just like the movie in its essence as described earlier: smooth, yet sharp.
This humor contributes to the overall feeling one might be watching something of a cartoon rather than a fully realistic film with fully realistic plots and characters. Which is what the entire endeavor really is here: making everything in the movie, from the individuals to the various scenes, exaggerated enough for the points to come out thrusting forward at the viewer. Like bulging, slightly cartoonish quirks and twists. It's still subtle enough that one requires more viewing and experiencing of the show unfolding to grasp the intentions of the story, as one won't simply understand everything in only an hour of viewing. It may, though, perhaps suffer from a bit of a self-indulgent progression towards a climax too blunt and so open to interpretation it seems inevitable it'll keep the viewer wanting. It simply doesn't carry out the resolution with as much clarity, precision, and impact as what the film had initially managed up to that conclusion. It's like ending a delightfully fresh and tasteful dinner on an obviously subpar dessert. Unfortunate, as that will nearly always make a movie lose a bit of its color, no matter how strong the rest of it.
This humor contributes to the overall feeling one might be watching something of a cartoon rather than a fully realistic film with fully realistic plots and characters. Which is what the entire endeavor really is here: making everything in the movie, from the individuals to the various scenes, exaggerated enough for the points to come out thrusting forward at the viewer. Like bulging, slightly cartoonish quirks and twists. It's still subtle enough that one requires more viewing and experiencing of the show unfolding to grasp the intentions of the story, as one won't simply understand everything in only an hour of viewing. It may, though, perhaps suffer from a bit of a self-indulgent progression towards a climax too blunt and so open to interpretation it seems inevitable it'll keep the viewer wanting. It simply doesn't carry out the resolution with as much clarity, precision, and impact as what the film had initially managed up to that conclusion. It's like ending a delightfully fresh and tasteful dinner on an obviously subpar dessert. Unfortunate, as that will nearly always make a movie lose a bit of its color, no matter how strong the rest of it.