möbius strip, dreamcatcher. destruction as a natural pattern of humanity, self-awareness of this as the ultimate prison, and freedom (consequently) as a highly highly relative concept.
another benson/moorhead sci-fi joint that warps reality in on itself for an expressly dramatic purpose: to capture the inescapable cycles and impulses that govern its characters, be them love or addiction or the need to know. these guys make cosmic horror for the synapses, somewhere between carruth and lovecraft
