I left the theatre oddly disappointed, yet at the same time, I almost wanted to see the movie again. My girlfriend hates this type of movie, but even she offered an hour's worth of discussion on the mythological/purgatorial themes afterwards.
It wasn't until I had really thought about the movie and discussed it that I came to fully appreciate it. Apart from its interesting cinematography, poetic dialogue, and excellent acting, where the movie comes into its own is in the manifold interpretations that can be gleaned.
There was a lot of depth to the movie that many might write off as pretense just because of the noir flair and the purple passages of dialogue. Even I had the feeling that Eggers was trying extremely hard to make a modern classic. But at the end of the day, this was one of the most interesting and entertaining films I have seen in a long time.
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