This movie is one of the weirdest ones I have seen in my life. I was first intrigued by this one because the poster and official summary looked interesting, and the positive reviews were all over the place. This is the first time I have not enjoyed a movie with so much positive reception, but I do suspect that the people who loved this film are also fans of abstract art and don't care too much if they need to get too creative with their interpretations in order to understand a movie.
The film follows a very strange man whose job is similar to that of an actor, except that his acts happen in public and with regular people from the street. He goes to his different acting appointments in a limousine and the female driver is also his assistant. These appointments are completely different from each and they are all totally bizarre.
At one time he is giving a sort of performance arts wearing a motion capture suit along with a fellow actress, later on, he is a father to a teenage girl, in another "act" he is a dirty man who lives in the sewers and kidnaps a model, he is also a killer in another occasion... In total there are 9 acts and there is no relation between any of them.
The limousine is a special place. He has a lot of different makeup items, masks, and clothes. He does his dressing and makeups himself, but what's weird about all of this, is that sometimes he gets seriously hurt doing his acts. However, when he returns to the limo, he is all fine and healthy as if nothing had happened. So, I think there are 2 possibilities to explain this, either the acts are somehow fake, or he is under the protection of some unknown force, perhaps his own nature could be supernatural.
Nothing in this film is explained, there is no info about why he does his acts, the weird scene at the beginning is just that, a weird unrelated scene, the ending doesn't explain anything, in fact it does the opposite it confuses some more but it does prove there is something supernatural or fantasy-like in this world, or at least in the lives of the main characters of the film.
So much weirdness isn't for me, and I wasn't expecting this level of craziness. It is clear there are people who enjoy this type of story given its general reviews, but I personally cannot recommend something that I didn't enjoy. What I can say is that this is a weird film that is completely open to interpretation.
The best
- I guess it has a lot of creative value and originality.
The worst
- It doesn't make any sense.
- Some scenes are gross.
More information: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076220/ Review: AA In numbers: 5.5/10
