Pretty cool. The ending is cheap and cheapens the already single-lane theme they chose, but the meta sci-fi stuff was fun and still holds up. I actually think it could have used another 15 minutes or so with the main crew. Part of why I couldn’t get on board with certain characters is the era this was written, and part of it is that you can almost read this movie like a reality show edit in terms of which characters…

thanks roger ebert. This movie makes perfect sense to me. I only had one or two moments where gaps in logic occurred to me, but then the gaps were ultimately filled in and paid off well.

Nobody has the first clue who they are, what they want, or whether a decision is the right one at age 16. And yet we’re pressured to decide at this age. Pressured to want things just because achieving such things are standard procedure to…

It’s so interesting reading reviews of this because I watched it so differently from those I’ve read. That is to say, it all read to me as meta. They will never be together, they have no environmental strings pulling taut their behavior, making them act a certain way (that is, up until a certain point in the movie, and when that shifts you can feel it). Jesse says the quiet part out loud. Every time you do something, you’re there…