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Here’s a little indie gem that’s developing a cult following. If you like weird, anything-can-happen movies like After Hours or Into the Night or Miracle Mile, films that don’t go where you expect, you will like this. Also, if you like fractured time lines, telling a story from the end back to the beginning, like Memento or Pulp Fiction or Run Lola Run. Or hard-nosed, smart, relentlessly logical stories like Red Rock West and The Last Seduction. You want one more cinematic reference? How about Blood Simple, where characters behave badly under stress, become “simple” and do the worst possible thing, operating on facts they think they knew and are wrong about.
The humor here is very, very black. I love humor like that, and I laughed a lot. Litmus test: A couple is making love in a graveyard. The motion dislodges an angel’s head, which smashes the guy’s head literally flat as a pancake. She doesn’t see it, and goes on to climax. I howled with glee. If you don’t think that’s funny, don’t see this.
The characters are one-dimensional, mostly, because they are being moved like chess pieces in the director’s intricate web. That’s okay, none of them are very nice … but I have to add that Hilary Swank manages to make her character wonderful, unique, and memorable with only a few small scenes. That lady is good.