First, conflict as a disease vector. This does happen with, for example, leishmaniasis, as the various armed groups move through the country. But why invent a disease called lithomiasis and then say repeatedly that it's similar to leishmaniasis? Our protagonist comes down with the disease, is cured, relapses, till by the end it seems little more than a nuisance rash.
Second, how do the viciously opposed factions exist within a society which also sustains a post-industrial sector with software companies such as our protagonist's employers? It turns out that lithomiasis clones its sufferers and turns one into a guerrilla, another into a paramilitary, and so on. Hence the protagonist confronts his paramilitary doppelganger, but the scene achieves nothing. The other selves don't emerge from aspects of the original protagonist and their interactions are shallow.
I was at a screening with Q&A with the director in which he was happy to say that he'd been criticized both for being a fascist and an extreme leftist. What I missed in the film was any expression of what he _does_ want.
Finally, there's a lot of stock footage from Colombia and the Twin Towers attacks whose appearance isn't really justified by what the film has to say.
Second, how do the viciously opposed factions exist within a society which also sustains a post-industrial sector with software companies such as our protagonist's employers? It turns out that lithomiasis clones its sufferers and turns one into a guerrilla, another into a paramilitary, and so on. Hence the protagonist confronts his paramilitary doppelganger, but the scene achieves nothing. The other selves don't emerge from aspects of the original protagonist and their interactions are shallow.
I was at a screening with Q&A with the director in which he was happy to say that he'd been criticized both for being a fascist and an extreme leftist. What I missed in the film was any expression of what he _does_ want.
Finally, there's a lot of stock footage from Colombia and the Twin Towers attacks whose appearance isn't really justified by what the film has to say.
Tell Your Friends