Amir and Amat are invited to a trip into the South American rain forest, but the pleasant visit to Bolivia quickly takes a bizarre turn as Amat starts having strange visions and loses his mi... Read allAmir and Amat are invited to a trip into the South American rain forest, but the pleasant visit to Bolivia quickly takes a bizarre turn as Amat starts having strange visions and loses his mind over the ghostly presence of a giant blood red ox. Amir must save his boyfriend from pa... Read allAmir and Amat are invited to a trip into the South American rain forest, but the pleasant visit to Bolivia quickly takes a bizarre turn as Amat starts having strange visions and loses his mind over the ghostly presence of a giant blood red ox. Amir must save his boyfriend from paranoia but he will quickly realize he can't trust nothing and nobody - as he might be losi... Read all
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The problem I had with this film was that every time I thought I was seeing a clear, logical and convincing plot develop, it immediately shifted or abruptly changed.
This contributed greatly to the confusing and unclear events throughout the film. I never felt as though I could get into the characters and felt lost.
So, in the final analysis, who knows where this movie is trying to go? Watch with incomprehension in mind.
This one turned out to be quite an enjoyable effort. Among the films' better features here is the influx of generally unnerving imagery to great effect throughout. Employing an artistically-stimulating style of large-scale, red-tinged sequences of a giant red ox looming at the very end after encountering a slew of warped and demented figures targeting them beforehand, the sequences here are incredibly rich visually and equally disturbing tonally. Seeing how much they impact the characters and how much emotional damage brings about a series of fine shock scenes made even more explicit by the reveal of them being dreams. They're genuinely frightening enough that the idea of them unraveling a person's mind trying to come to terms with what's going on as the series of revelations that come about in the final half involving the figures constantly having their reality switched out from under them and gives this it's best feature. There isn't much wrong here, as this one tends to come under one general drawback. The wholly convoluted and nearly impossible-to-decipher screenplay causes this to be quite difficult to get through at points as the host of issues that crop up due to that nearly derail it at points. Foregoing any kind of linear structure by having conversations be repeated with the same characters in different locations under different circumstances, having the same scenario go through itself several times over, and featuring memory loss be the culprit for numerous miscommunications between them, it's incredibly easy to get lost in what's going on. That gets furthered by the highly complex subplots present with the value of rainforest preservation, mental health, and a person's fractured identity that is brought up which make this one a mess to get any understanding about. Very little is explained, and it makes this wholly frustrating not being to figure out what's going on.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Full Male Nudity, Graphic Language, Sex Scenes, and drug use.
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1