Reviews

This is wonderfully absurd, and leans heavily into the late-era Soviet ideals and expressive artstyle. The protagonist is arrogant and really really dumb, thinking that things will conform to the way he believes the world to be and necessarily behave, when it is under no such obligation. The situations he is put into therefore becomes troublesome not only, but primarily due to his own utter incomprehension of his situation. The movie is well-produced, looks entirely distinct from most anything else, but is hard to truly engage with, as you cannot easily empathize with the protagonists, not understand the antagonists at all.