nvarea
This movie evidently gets a lot of people very angry. If you are easily frustrated or easily angered by something as simple as a little 10 minute movie, you're probably one of those people who orders stuff on amazon and then checks the order's status every 15 minutes. Relax. Yes, it repeats exactly, and a little editing might have helped. But that's the point - you are supposed to feel uneasy repeating everything exactly, and getting nowhere new. Seeing the same footage again, I looked out for other details - the movie is full of cool details that others have pointed out.I'm not sure what to make of the bum sitting by the subway. My feeling is that he calls attention to his new shoes because he is not caught in the rat race, and hasn't worn them out. Or maybe Amazon needed another product placement. I couldn't make out much of what he said.But take off that watch and relax.
Shane Bernard
The film is a metaphor for "the rat race." Get it? That's why the rat imagery appears throughout the film. All over the film. The film is a rant against the rat race. The lesson, therefore, is the more obvious "hey, we need to stop and 'smell the roses.'" I found the film enjoyable, and I accepted the recurring scenes as they were intended: without them, you'd have no film. So I simply didn't let the repetition get to me. I looked for inconsistencies in the images as I watched them again and again; that is, I looked for changes during the recurring events. (No, I didn't see any.) But, again, the rat race metaphor is really very clever, and I didn't understand the rat metaphor (assuming I'm correct) until the film started its second cycle. I did not find the "product placements" to be intrusive -- which I'm sure is what the film makers intended.
Zhoulune-1
So... Yeah... This is a really hard film to watch all the way through. I paused it once, then played it again and thought it had skipped back to the woman with the roses. But no, it turns out the film repeats that part, amongst others, quite a few times. Is the guy just going crazy or what? I admit, I didn't really pay much attention to the film, because I hate films that keep looping, but it also just wasn't very engrossing. And that guy...who says, "I am god!" That was just too freaky. I can't believe the guy even approached him, I mean, I would run screaming from a guy like that. Wow. Still though, it seems like an interesting film, and I'm sure if you can actually pay attention to it, then you'll find some meanings in there. I couldn't really watch it myself though...
naoma
It would have been better to have the instruction for the click on the roses on the first page so that the film did not have to be viewed twice. I thought that was a waste of time. Actually, one viewing was quite enough. I did not see the palindrome until I read the comments of others. In my opinion, that was the most clever part of the film. I felt it was a waste of time and I could have been out "smelling the roses." But, the product placement was interesting and I like the actor. I look forward to viewing the rest of the films in the series and hope they are more interesting. Also, I did not know about the ten line summary and had to rewrite and lose this several times. I am a person of few words.
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