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The Basics: Page, naked and wrapped in a shower curtain, rides a bus and looks for her brother, whom she believes she's hypnotized into thinking he's a dog. But you don't really know if the brother's even around anymore or why this wreck of a teenager is naked, until this visual puzzle of a movie decides to start putting its pieces together.
What's the Deal? And by visual puzzle, I mean that its title is meant to be taken literally. It's made up of actual visual fragments (so somebody needs to get an art-direction award, if nothing else), sometimes in split screen, sometimes in multiple views of action. It dissolves, it wipes, it pops out of one corner and bounces around like Pong, it shatters into a million little pieces. And adding challenge to challenge, the occasionally unreliable narrator isn't always in sync with what you're seeing. But you'll figure it out … eventually. Page does a whole lot of acting here, but how affected you are by the outcome will depend on how close you are to the teen-trauma subject matter in the first place.
Possible Reactions:
1. "This looks cool!"
2. "This looks cool yet is an intentional distraction from the fact that there's not a ton of story going on."
3. "Yeah, I saw Time Code. AND Chelsea Girls. What else you got?"
Pedigree: From director Bruce McDonald, who made the '90s cult hit Highway 61 but who's also responsible for lots of episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation and the crazy TV movie Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story.
Indie Rock Fans, Take Note: Very nice score by Broken Social Scene.
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