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Title: Surface, Surface, Surface
Review: I can not in good conscience even give this film good marks for being "visually stunning" as others have done before me. Just about everything that can be said has been said about the horrible plot so I won't bother restating any of it.But on the DVD (which I rented and still felt like I spent too much money on it) director Tarsem muses about how much the dream sequences were inspired by those of David Lynch. He talks about how real dreams are "visceral" and that they make intuitive sense to us precisely because they speak to us at such an unselfconscious level.Sorry Tarsem. If your intention was to get under our skin you failed. All the extremely self-conscious camera angles, elaborate lighting, and baroquely outlandish S&M costumes managed to do was to be so distracting that the dream sequences seemed hollow and bloodless. Very surface oriented film both from a plot standpoint and a visual standpoint.
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