Ambitious for a passion project, but often falls flat due to Fischbach's relative inexperience as a director to properly execute the concept.

As a game adaptation, it's quite interesting how much it expands on the otherwise barren gaming experience that is Iron Lung the game without adding inordinate amounts of fluff and worldbuilding. This does however, compromise the actual selling points of the game, those being the vagueness and oppressive atmosphere. The protagonist is always talking, always communicating, either with…

Pretty great. Rian Johnson always does stellar work with cinematography and this film is no different, there are many shots you could hang on a wall.

It's a movie about religion first and foremost and the portrayal feels tasteful enough to propel the story and have the characters play off each other without feeling like a cheap pseudophilosophy gimmick. Having all characters have different interpretations and feelings towards religion, faith and the murder victim is great and plays really well…

Okay so issues I have:

- the Rashomon perspective thing doesn't work in the movie because most of the character perspectives do not add anything of substance to the story. It could have been structured in an orthodox way or some segments could have been cut out entirely (Paul's and James' comes to mind, why the fuck was the aunt lady in the woods anyway). In Rashomon, all perspectives matter given that they are conveying that multiple subjective truths exist…

Very good overall, I audibly spoke "let's fucking get it" in the theater during the castle segment. Revisits the theming of repressed sexual desires and the fear of what's within present in both The VVitch and The Lighthouse. The production design and supernatural effects also borrow closely from those which I really appreciated after The Northman being a personal disappointment from the director.

Excellent foil to the original film too (which mostly touched on fear of others as a metaphor…