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Solid psychological drama that leaves you scratching your head


The story is fairly engaging and the actors are effective, particularly Considine as the protagonist, but the ending is ambiguous and left to interpretation. Regardless, the themes are intriguing: romanticism vs. logic, fate & fatalism vs. chance encounter, omens & signs vs. random happenings and the irony of role reversal or reaping what you sow.

It's not great and it's too pessimistic -- because it's really a tragedy -- but it's a solid psycho-drama with intriguing ideas that'll leave you pondering or scratching your head. The latter is why many people don't like it.

I give it a grade of B (or 7/10)

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