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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There is the skeleton of a story draped around the film, enough to make you think it might be going someplace or mean something, but it will all be abandoned, or ignored in favor of obtuse, confusing, unconnected occurrences strung together for no reason whatsoever. There are some good creepy moments, one particularly effective scare, and even reasonably strong performances, but basically it's a 20-minute student film made by a potentially talented filmmaker, whose sole dictate was to create a mysterious and creepy ambiance - stretched to 86 minutes without the least idea (or perhaps intention) of providing anything more. There is enough of a plot to leave you frustrated when it veers away into disjointed nonsense whose dots will never connect, padded out with a man hearing strange noises, the source of which doesn't matter and is never explained, or hearing strange voices on recordings which may or may not be ghostly voices, and photographing images that may or may not be some time-displacement issue, seeing a bottle filling up with inky liquid for no discernible reason and certainly not connecting to anything else in the film, or showing shots of blood drops run backwards. And then there are the extreme close-ups of rocks, and suddenly spitting out tar. You know, anything permissible under the rubric of "it's surreal", or "it's art" but far more likely "it's kinda like something David Lynch would do." Which might be justification for crafting a 20-minute student film, but not enough to try and pass it off as a feature film. I personally love complex films that make you work intellectually; but that's a far cry from incoherent, lazy film-making where nothing logically fits together however technically accomplished it might be in places. Considering its minuscule budget it is extremely well-done and uses its limitations wisely. Too bad there wasn't a thought-out screenplay that all of this could have been in service of.

SPOILER: so this Investigator was or is married and had a son. Seems to be turning his life around by engaging himself in his career. He gets an assignment by an agent to spy on the woman, he observes alot of fighting and misunderstandings between her and her fiancee.He is plagued by the symbolic death of his wife (marriage) and son. From the dreams he has, his son most probably died from a disease. His son doesn't seem uneasy with his father in the dreams and from his corpse-like image he doesn't have injuries depicting a murder.. There is a jar in his room full of black liquid and a small mini-statue beside it. At times the jar is opened and the little statue also goes missing at some point. The point is this man has memory issues.He does things and doesn't remember what he did. No one entered his apartment, he lives on self-hate and doesn't care about his body, hygiene and necessary daily things. He is a necrophiliac and this can be seen as he is aroused by the crime scene photos of a murder. There is an indication that he murdered his friend after he said a lousy comment about abortion of his wife's baby. He has a distorted mind plagued by death, even the simplest of things have significance to him or arouse deep twisted and sick up emotions in him.The murder of the woman is a great example of how mentally damaged he is. The way he murdered her was disgustingly obvious that it's not his first time.. although he does show some surprise in his reaction to what he had done. The guy who hired him is most probably the father of the woman's fiancee. This isn't facts but what I understood from the film..

Although there was so much promise to this movie, the director left out so much information as to what was going on. Comparing it to Rear Window is a criticism of Rear Window. Too many pieces of incident that didn't connect. Why was he getting sick. Why was he throwing up 'tar', as it were. Why is he even monitoring this woman? Who was the child? Why go back and forth to the ocean view and chat with his friend? What's with the jar on the shelf? Who was the male visitor? Just not good enough for me to watch again to pick up what I missed...and I always miss something in movies that I watch more than once. Why end the movie the way he did? Sorry....thumbs down!

I definitely didn't have many expectations for this and I had no idea what type of film it would be. I love its ambiguity. Many people will hate it for that same reason but I found that it was able to sufficiently explore its story and characterization (it does a great job of developing its main character) while still not revealing itself completely and by sustaining great atmosphere and mood (and well-done jump scares too) throughout its entirety. I think it's a simple, but scary film, one that will only appeal to a specific kind of horror fan but the type of horror we need more of. I would definitely recommend it, although be cautious because it's not for everyone.