preston’s review published on Letterboxd:
Often seems to be the exact opposite, 'An Overcomplication of Its Banality', and even e.g. the first section - the most coherent - flatters to deceive since its back-and-forth structure doesn't really change the emotions, merely burnishes the same scenario with more details, so its repeated "How would you feel?"s don't actually require different answers. Alternates between dazzling invention and pretentious junk with verbose voice-over that seems to have been written by The Engineer in the Matrix movies - and of course the purple style chimes with the theme, viz. the problem of over-thinking everything and becoming "emotionally unavailable" (like its too-cool hero, the film maintains a "facade of ambivalence"), which is all very clever but in fact so clever that maybe it obfuscates on purpose, and it's not really form=content but in fact a meta-stunt about form=content; you can go slightly nuts trying to engage with this movie. A calling card, but also wildly personal and full of earnest feeling (ironically, the bit I trust most of all is when hero recalls that his childhood was full of unconditional love; it feels exactly like the kind of film made by someone who's always been told that he's wonderful). It's a slog, but you can't dismiss it.