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Truly Is A CLASSIC Metaphoric Art House Flick!


The more I watch this movie, the more details and craftsmanship I see in it. The production design, directing, acting, and script is so meticulously done. Yet crew and actors are so humble about it. It's such a 'in your face' statement on modern life, vanity, personal privacy, mystery, and playing God with it all to the best of our abilities. I kid you not! I think so many viewers fail to see themselves in this movie, and it's stated right up front. "Stories matter in our lives. But most of our lives are too busy for the full story anymore. That's why our condensing business is doing so well." The whole business and it's employees are an analogy to modern living. And hilarious that 90% of the books the company is most popular for are for personal health. Think about that for a moment... You're so busy with your own life, you don't have time to care about yourself. Yet a glimpse through a condensed self help book may give you the image and health tips to maintain and succeed in your busy self centered life. That's INSANE! And I think it's truly affected much of the urban center psychology worldwide now. Millions of people in thousands of cities trying to do so much more with less and less instruction. If you don't read the full textbook, you're an idiot. If you read a condensed textbook fully, you're savvy. Yet, who are these people taking out bits of our knowledge and entertainment? Who are these doctors that harvest corpses to sustain life? What gives these people the knowledge and expertise to say 'That's an important bit, keep that. That's useless and boring, dump that.' They know people better than people may know themselves. And when it comes to fiction, it's those discarded bits and pieces that can be molded into a fantastic and detailed adventure. Much like North American and aboriginal native cultures, they try to use EVERY bit of their kills to be at one with the earth. Food, fuel, fashion - all from one unlucky animal. Use everything in one form or another, and one can lead a fulfilling and caring life. This movie is remarkable how it fuses that simple logic into such a modern and complex mosaic. "Back to bloody nature." indeed. This is such a deep and well done movie! Kudos to all for surviving their pains and seeing it through!

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