Interesteg What makes it different from others?

ThiefHott Too much of everything

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

mattiasflgrtll6 I was actually looking for a completely different movie when somebody said "Maybe this is the movie you are looking for?". It wasn't, but my God am I glad I stumbled upon it. I am literally EXTREMELY thankful I had the luck to know about a movie which unfortunately is so obscure that I don't even know how many in Sweden have seen it. I have tried to convince a friend for several months to check out this unforgettable piece, but to no avail. What a shame, he's really missing out on something special! The thing is, if you watch this the first time, you will probably scratch your head your skin will tear off and brain mass is sighted. Okay, that was a little too much, but still. What's funny about this is that it's not such a complicated or hard-to-get movie after all. I was so convinced I had missed something on the first watch, so I gave it a second viewing. It turned out it was just as simple as I had interpreted it: a surreal, twisted thriller about paranoia in a strange environment. Simon J. is pretty much a normal guy, who tries to live his own life. But he can't, because his boss gets him under the skin by constantly blabbing about the codes he as a computer programmer was supposed to send. But what are the codes for? Mostly taking place in a apartment building, Simon meets a lot of crazy people, even including Howard, who is constructing a small robot with a intricate voice (it was so hard to hear what it said that I had to turn up the volume if I didn't play incredibly close attention) and Trish, who partakes in some... peculiar activities on her time off. His emotional connection to her is one of the most interesting aspects of the movie. Does he love her for real or is he just trying to seek comfort in someone in a world he can't grasp? His friendship with Howard is also a major part of the movie. But even though he's the only one who relatively keeps his sanity intact, nobody goes free from suspicion, since... ... he gets sent empty packages to his apartment again and again and again, which is what motivates him to act as scared and odd as he does. Why is he always being followed when he goes to the grocery store? Why can't he stop buying so much milk? For how long can he avoid paying the rent? And what's up with this virus causing the deaths of several people? We are all Simon in this movie. His fear and incapability to remain calm while he still tries to anyway is so realistic it's scary. I can imagine acting exactly like him if I was put in such a situation. Uncertain and unrelaxed. The only one who actively helps him out is his friend Nile, but isn't he acting cuckoo as well? How can he always arrive to his apartment in barely a minute? The ending has been criticized, but I think it's perfect. It fits the tone of the movie excellently and I can't picture another way it could've turned out. Be prepared it's very dark, depressing and disturbing. But if you're in the mood for a flick outside the boundary and won't be distracted with checking your email and Facebook, which is unfortunately just the same old stuff, watch it. Maybe you'll be just as obsessed with this movie as I myself got afterwards.

djoshtodd There was some kewl stuff in this movie. Especially the Mid-Rise Apartment in the movie. Really neat. Does anyone know what Country this apartment was in? Was it Romania? Iceland? Was it really a set? It was really neat Art Deco type apartment, seeming it was of the 1920's or 30's. If any one has the inside on my question about this mysterious Mid-Rise, I would really appreciate it. And also take special note to those old European dial phones. Was that current for this Country? I loved the Film Nior & mystery of this movie. I really Liked Jeremy Sisto. Have never heard of him before. And that German actor. Udo Kier? Hope I spelled it right. And I also love anything Lance Henrickson is in.Love them Indies.Peace Josh

mario_c This film is an amazing dark thriller that is greatly filmed in a noir-style type. The settings are always dark, mysterious and full of a surrealist ambiance that grabs you in suspense since the beginning until the end of the movie. The plot, which is extremely confusing, is passed in a near future, where almost everything is similar to the present except the nanotechnology, which is more advanced… I love the kind of cinematography which is presented in this movie: the mysterious characters, the dark settings, the strange and confusing plot, the surreal ambiences, those camera shots from the most bizarre angles… However, in this particular case, I didn't appreciate very much its ending (which I will not spoil), maybe because I was expecting some kind of different disclosure. It doesn't mean the end is bad, not at all, but I was expecting something else… Just because of that I will score this movie as 9/10 and not the 10/10 I was thinking I would give it when I was watching the movie… Anyway, it's an excellent movie made in some Sci-Fi and surreal standards that shows us a possible scenario to the future, when the technology and the informatics systems will mess (even more!) with our brains!

Jonny_Numb What begins as a paranoid gloss on David Lynch's "Eraserhead" (the central character is an antisocial loner in a fittingly creepy apartment complex) eventually unravels and stalls due to its own hyper-allegoric art-house pretensions. But for a while, it's an engrossing, unconventionally entertaining tale of a computer programmer (Jeremy Sisto) who receives empty packages inside his apartment...even after he changes the locks. While it's clearly a work of science fiction, the conceptualization of "the future" is presented in a minimalist manner–save for some complex-looking computer screens and virtual-reality scenes–that envelops the cerebral thriller elements quite nicely. In addition to "Eraserhead", it also bears some resemblance to David Cronenberg's more playful "eXistenZ," with a similar emphasis on the blurred line between hallucination and reality (metaphors abound), but the double- and triple-crosses the plot lays out eventually become tiresome.