to that last point - it didn’t really manage to establish and deepen the mood. the whole thing felt skittish and febrile - nervous, neurotic energy, rather than a deepening sense of malevolent detachment. that makes sense in terms of what hogg was trying to do i think, but it’s the reverse of the normal direction (a form of unexamined normality, put into gradual but inescapable powers of morbidity and more or less tangible death, before coming out (or not) substantially changed. here the main character is deep deep beyond “the bourne from which there is no returning” and the film is a navigation out of it.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 17 December 2023 12:25 (four months ago) link