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Seimetz likes not just her frames oblique, but also her characters and stories at least at first.
Elsewhere, a man seems to lament a broken relationship.
Could Amys spiraling condition be prompted by the relationship and its end?
Amy has become convinced she is going to die tomorrow literally.
(Im going to die tomorrow.
No, youre not.
Yes, I am.
No, youre not.)
Its intensely disturbing and hilarious in equal measure, as if somebody decided to let David Lynch remakeContagion.
When Jason and Susan are hit with the virus (can we call it a virus?
Amy (remember Amy?)
goes on a late-night dune-buggy ride.
Some smile at the thought of death.
But everybody also becomes brutally honest with one another.
Mortality, it seems, crystalizes the real.
The soundtrack assaults us with ominous thrums, blasts of classical music, whispers, and distant screams.
In that sense, the films prescience feels both highly specific and expansive.
Things end thats what they do, the film suggests.
