Not being a very big fan of the 90s this one is a bit rough for me. It basically reminds me of every industrial music video from that decade complete with the drab black and white camerawork, the shaky cam and of course the atonal music. The saving grace is that director Darren Aronofsky at least packs some interesting ideas in this intentionally nihilistic exercise about chaos vs. order in the natural world and the thin line between brilliance and insane nutiness. So that's probably why I've seen it twice now in 20 years. In all that time I forgot about the unpleasantness of it all. Speaking of which most of the characters in this are pretty unlikable and tough to relate to or want to spend time around but I'm sure that's intentional and mirrors society in some ways. All in all an interesting if not very enjoyable independent film experiment that math nerds and/or artsy-fartsy film snobs may appreciate a bit more than me.
Gory poster!:
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