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I am 56. I love movies and tried to make a few. So I like to think of myself as a student of film.

SS, for all it's promise of offering the opposite of the comic- made-movie still follows the same formula that these films have all devolved to. I know I am jaded as far as action films go and that I have seen so many over the years that it is hard for me to see something as new or at least a fresh take on a trope. If I has seen this when I was 15 I would have liked it more, but even then I would have noticed the formula.

But the formula sells, so I will end this gripe here. I'll be back

This is a well crafted short that wiggles around several scifi and philosophical and metaphysical tomes in a clever and interesting way. It slowly accelerates until your scratching your noggin saying, "If that's him, who is he?

It could have easily turned out to be a trite treatment of the above tomes, but the whole things works well for the whole fifteen minutes.

Among all the other questions it raises, how many mice were there?

You can stop reading here, I am still typing so I can make the minimum of 10 lines. I don't want to say anymore about "Mouse X" because I don't want to give anything away.....