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Devarsi Ghosh’s review published on Letterboxd:
This review may contain spoilers.
The film is about two travellers who have come to a remote part of the Himalayas in search of a flying saucer. This saucer was apparently made by a mad scientist in a bid to transcend the human form i.e to escape the cycle of rebirth and attain divine status. One of the travellers was familiar with this scientist when he was young and he recalls his memories about the guy, while the other documents their entire travelling experience on his tape recorder. There's a point in the film where one of them sings a song, as if he is having a conversation with God, describing himself as a wandering soul at God's door in search of wisdom. He asks the Guru/God to listen to his plea and help him see the light. I am not sure what the film means and honestly, I do not give a shit because the film had me hooked from start to finish. I owe it to its beautiful, minimalist cinematography that captured the silence and the loneliness of the locations perfectly. The huge mountains, the absence of population, and the sight of the two travellers walking up the slopes like two ants - it was really 'iconic'. The second powerful aspect of the film was its trance-inducing sound design, mildly resembling that of Stalker's. The film is soaked in spiritualism and one will need some reading to completely understand what is said and showed at every point.
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