it definitely tries too hard and looses its punch since it's trying to bL0w y0uR MiNd. also the dead wife scenes are really goddamn cringe. but there was something about the film I've been waiting years to talk about that was really cool.

all of the detective's interactions with the island staff are duplicitous in a way that is really chilling once you've already seen the movie once. I swear that dumpster fire is worth actually watching twice because of how

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it depicts people interacting with someone they know is hallucinating and consider a menace. they're simultaneously exhausted with his bullshit and also obligated with his care and also deeply afraid of him. they're cruel at times but also clearly victimized regularly by him. it's a cutting depiction of what working in the health sector can look like in some of its worst moments, even if the movie can't help itself from trying to be dramatic.

hate it, definitely recommended. it's stupid, but good. also Leo plays a character with the exact same baggage again in Inception a year later which is funny.