Carrie (Jackie Kelly) is a socially-troubled young woman trying to mend a strained relationship with her mother. After her grandfather dies in a nursing home, Carrie finds herself attracted to William (Bill Oberst Jr.), an elderly man in a neighboring room. William's doctor offers Carrie a part-time position with the nursing home to keep tabs on the old man. William shares a series of tall tales from his life as a younger man. He claims to be immortal, cursed to never die but to grow old and sick. Before he can finish his final tale, William mysteriously disappears, and Carrie is implicated in his murder.
If you're a fan of David Lynch or the TV show Lost, you might like this; even at 2 1/2 hours. Things happen that make no sense, even if you try and re-engineer the narrative. Oh, wait. Was there a narrative? Maybe it's just me but because something makes no sense, that doesn't make it surrealist excellence. Not my cup of tea. 4/10
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If you're a fan of David Lynch or the TV show Lost, you might like this; even at 2 1/2 hours. Things happen that make no sense, even if you try and re-engineer the narrative. Oh, wait. Was there a narrative? Maybe it's just me but because something makes no sense, that doesn't make it surrealist excellence. Not my cup of tea. 4/10