What can you say about a movie that does nothing but talk about itself? After seeing it a second time, I began to notice just how careful it is, how every moment ties into another. What someone says in one scene finds dramatic fulfillment in another. Echoes travel back and forth across the narrative. One character speaks of the poor final act of a movie he admires, and the protagonist is told that a good ending will solve everything. But the ending we are left with is impossible to interpret with the tools the movie gives us. Should we take it seriously (at least emotionally seriously)? Or would that just make us suckers? Is that the joke? I don't think the movie itself contains the answers to these questions, and it is ultimately up to each viewer. This is either a stroke of genius or a complete cop-out, and I think the movie wants us to remain in that uncertain position.
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