an incredible feat in tonal mis/re/direction. in the first fifteen minutes we're introduced to several seemingly anecdotal elements that crash into eachother and lead to disparate points of narrative chaos, the relevance of each fading in and out throughout the film following - instead of genre bends we get glimmers and snatches of tonal shifts and mutations thru a linkage of bizarre events: a stabbing and the grotesque slow death of its victim, their hijacking of a taxi cab, another…