I watched this film last month, watched it twice, and there was something strange about it that kept haunting me. I really like this movie, it's clean like a spring, and the plot is so incredible, we don't know why it's the way it is, but it's very natural. The soundtrack is extremely comfortable.
It reminds me of Vincent Gallo's The Brown Rabbit, which is less somber by comparison, but no less somber, with a rare lucid melancholy, loneliness and despair.
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