I came to this film with expectations of being similar in some ways to David Lynch's _Eraserhead_. After all, it has gritty photography and is supposed to be very weird and enigmatic, like some avant-garde artistic endeavor. I like the weird/bizarre in cinema (I LOVE lots of Jan Svankmajer's work); I like stuff that's enigmatic (_2001_ ending); I like stuff that has seeming incongruities and disturbing imagery (e.g. David Lynch's work). But this? This just plain sucked, as far as I'm concerned. Nothing of redeeming value as far as I could tell. There really IS nothing to tell. For 70 minutes, you have some guy writhing and twitching around while being dragged about by beings in cloaks. He even writhes and twitches around on what appears to be a big pile of timber. A guy in the beginning (it was supposed to be God, though how you can tell is beyond me) writhes and twitches around while appearing to poke himself and make a mess.
Actually, the main problem isn't any weirdness or ambiguity, it's the utter incomprehensibility of what's even going on. NOTHING discernable is happening in this film. (Things HAPPEN in _Eraserhead_.) I'll try to make an analogy and liken it to a piece of literature. On the one hand, you have articulate, meaningful phrases pieced together in a way that weirds you out. On the other hand, you have words strung together that fail even to meet any standards of grammatical correctness or comprehensibility (and not even failing to do so in a funny or interesting way). This so-called film falls into the latter category.
Actually, the main problem isn't any weirdness or ambiguity, it's the utter incomprehensibility of what's even going on. NOTHING discernable is happening in this film. (Things HAPPEN in _Eraserhead_.) I'll try to make an analogy and liken it to a piece of literature. On the one hand, you have articulate, meaningful phrases pieced together in a way that weirds you out. On the other hand, you have words strung together that fail even to meet any standards of grammatical correctness or comprehensibility (and not even failing to do so in a funny or interesting way). This so-called film falls into the latter category.