Highly Enjoyable

As someone mentioned, this film opens more doors than closes them, which is the definition of words and syntax itself. If life was only a series of mysteries waiting for solutions, then all we need is language.

Nope, fictions exist because we need those abstractions for a stage--a stage in which to face realities. And to paraphrase Director Mike Nichols, "if we could have just told you this story using words, we would have."

Now then, like a Chinese box, if those abstractions are crucial to understanding reality, then there is no separate reality. Ah ha, now I understand!

The film bears watching at least twice, and one can ignore the host's continuted references to Freud. Is anyone going to read those works in order to fact-check any statements? Isn't there a point made about the power of forms themselves? That point was: once the viewer's attention is engaged, then it does not matter if the artifice is now shown, because the viewer allows himself the pleasure of the deception anyway.

Likewise In spite of the film's pretentions to concepts larger than cinema itself, it still succeeds as a damn good entertainment.