The film is still eye-opening. The whole story is shrouded in an atmosphere of pessimism and despair. The actors are not acting, but playing real, especially the heroine Alan Boustin who interprets a difficult role shockingly. ()
Darren uses the most straightforward narrative method combined with the incomparable montage style technique to show the audience a world that was originally indescribable: despair, depravity, sinking, darkness, depression, helplessness, loneliness, fear, death and all the sadness and order But they are intricately intertwined, like a mountain torrent, to give a heavy blow to the soul. ()
The film has received widespread attention and admiration, mainly because of the dazzling technical methods used in the film. The film uses much more and faster montage editing than most movies. This montage editing is largely not used for narrative, but used to express the inner world of the characters. Comparable images are connected uninterruptedly, carrying out a carpet bombing of human vision. This kind of montage editing brings a feeling of interlacing and reciprocating time and space, which reminds people of the style of a group of films that "subverted traditional movies" in 1999. Excellent photography, sharp editing, combined with the ghostly, three-day soundtrack, bring the audience an unforgettable audiovisual experience. ()
