This film was very hard to connect with. I never really knew what was happening or why characters did what they did. I also don't understand the world-building. Or rather, I like the idea of it, we just knew so little about the world that the circumstances of the world – which were designed to inform the characters' decisions – explained nothing.
For me, this film made another enormous mistake in its dramaturgy. It jumps ahead 35 years, and when it does it expects me to care about a new trio of characters making similarly inexplicable decisions. I really loved the two characters in act one (Nicholas Ashe Bateman, the director, plays one of them), but the film is done talking about those characters after 25 minutes.
This movie looks cool, and I wanted to like it. I tried hard to like it, even. But it just didn't happen.
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