Retina

They really tried, but I can't recommend this flick. The best part is scenery, DOP has beautiful ideas, but film isn't cohesive enough. Sorry, but no.

Let me start by saying i worked on this film.

For the haters. Get over yourselves.

We made this movie when we were 23 years old as a senior thesis. It was a 3 man crew making everything happen

Carlos Ferrer, my friend, spent ten years on this film. He wrote, directed, shot, wrote the score and did all the cgi on his own. Which is unheard of.

So put that into context when you watch it.

While it might have quiet, slow times (I'll agree) but we did what many wish they could do.

Whether you hate it or like it. Realize that it was a crew of three and a director that literally did everything that usually takes a actual film crew to make.

I was more impressed when I saw how few people there were in the credits. That's a sign of independent film and those are usually good. I'm not really sure what to say about how good this film was, because it's not really my style, but I was entertained enough at times. Something about eh way it ended seemed less than satisfying but the circumstances of April's situation were explained. I'm not sure what Brian's contribution was.

I wouldn't say the acting was outstanding but it was good enough. If you're looking for creepy this film delivers. There is some mystery as you wonder why April is being treated like a criminal, even though she's clearly the victim of something. We don't see her tell her story to the cop or whatever he is, but we see flashbacks showing what she experienced.

April's dreams reminded me of the movie "The Parallax View" where people watched videos that resembled those dreams. These were intended to brainwash. In this case, everything was blue except a red blanket, and editing was very quick. Most of the video was shots of New York City, and there were words on screens apparently intended to form a message.

There was a also a dark green flashback to New Year's eve but I didn't understand the purpose other than to show April was unhappy and drinking.

I am confused about one thing. Who gave this film a V-chip rating? While TV-14 was clearly correct, there was no sex. Why wasn't there a V for violence? A couple of scenes do get quite bloody.

And as far as attention to detail goes, a newspaper story explaining the movie's events at the end has misspelled words.

I've seen better, but I'll give the few people who made this movie credit for accomplishing a lot.

For a start, what's with these movies where you watch 5 mins then they go 6 days earlier, 6 months earlier.... Start a story and get on with it and stop with the interminable confusing flashbacks! The "plot" for this movies could have been good, but minutes pass with just a moaning soundtrack and either someone is sitting in a train saying nothing, doing nothing, B&W close-up scenes of things, of people's faces, well part of a face, part of an action, too much macro shots becomes very annoying. One loses the thread going back and forth... Can't recommend this movie. The whole script/dialogue must have been one page!

The Director seemed to think looooong drawn out senseless scenes would be interesting or he just needed filler for a BORING story. Very irritating dream sequences. The acting was horrendous and The main actor/character had absolutely no chemistry. I felt nothing for her at all. I think all the high scores here are definitely from people who had some connection to the movie. I fast forwarded through most of it. A couple of stops for plot points and understood the movie. Basically 10 min. of story and the rest just boring filler.