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Ethan (Ryan Jamison), a film student, is supposed to do a documentary
project with Alie (Roo Kirker), and she's hell-bent on doing something
about gender equality, gender diversity and the like and is very
passionate about it, not even noticing that this is a topic that Ethan
despite his best efforts, can get into at all. He would love to do
something about local (alledged) alien abductions, but meets a brick wall
when he tries to discuss it with Alie. However, the more he tries to work
on the documentary they agreed, the more he gets sucked into his alien
abduction idea - and especially a bunch of videos by Elijah (Douglas
Reese), a paranoid young man who claims to have been adbucted himself,
take Ethan's fancy. But Elijah might be much more entangled with Ethan's
messed up family life than Ethan even likes to admit ... Like
most of Douglas Reese's movies, this is a deliberately slow moving film,
and one with a storyline that only slowly reveals itself, often drifting
off into narrative sidearms that flash out the narration than pushing it
forward. That works in the film's favour though, drawing a rounded out
portrait of the situation as a whole, with an almost David Lynchian
mystery at its center. And Reese's cinematic language of long, sometimes
static takes that often find the lyrical in the mundane only help create
atmosphere. And a competent cast of course doesn't hurt either. Plus, the
pay-off - the final confrontation between Ethan and Elijah - sure packs a
punch and would be worth watching the whole thing alone.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
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