The film is beatuiflly shot, and is done so very simpily. Be it in the picturesque views of the rural landscape, or in the mundane stills of everyday life, every scene feels special. In film, people will speak of specific shots or styles of cinamatography, and that can make things confusing. However, when something is good, it is very easy to be able to know its good, and this movie very clearly has good cinamatography. The colors are vibrant and pop off the screen making you feel like you are right there in the hills of Buurndi with them. But it is not just the landscapes that draw the reader in. The dark and moody scenes of the digitaria make your even more curious, hoping to learn more. 

The film may have been shot in a straighforward way, but that is not to say the shots themselves were very straightforward. I felt consufed watching this film, but regarless of my lack of comprehension I could not look away. Vivid colors, dynamic style, and a style I cannot say I have seen before kept my attention throught the film. Sometimes, in the age of AI and cheap films churned out by huge corperate streaming giants, it is just refreshing to be able to watch something and say, "damn that looks good." This film is that.

The film is told in a non-linear manner, scene to scene the viewer travels around to different characters and times seeing a different view of the story. That is not to say that the film is toally out of order, but the shifts between demensions and space are what throw the storytelling for a loop. As a viewer, it was hard to tell where you were at each moment, and I found it quite difficult to keep track of the stroy because of this method. 

It also made the different realms and dreamscapes hard to connect to. I spent so much time wondering what is happening or where we were tat I would lose sight of the scene unfloding infront of me the significance it held to the story and to the characters. While ambitions, for me the story telling was something that held the film back. I feel the need to add, that I think a second watch would not only make the story telling easier to understand, but would make me apperciate the story more as well. This film is complex, and like many good things, you cannot always get it all in one go. It would be a diservice to write the film off because it is difficult to understand, because in the end, what new idea or concept has any meaning if it is not first something you cannot comprehend.

The plot of the movie makes sense in the macro. The movie discusses the brutality of modern colonialism in Africa, the repression of people's gender for conformity, the connection between technology and people, as well as explotation. However, while the content of the plot make sense, the shel the story is written in ddoes not inherently make sense to me. For example, when looking at the liminal reality sepertae from the real world, was it a dream like state, was it a real place, was it both, was it neither, by the end I was still unshure. This may have been a failing of me the viewer, not able to grasp a story whose message and style I am unfamilire with. But it is only with my experience that I can review this film. 

Even though I struggled with the plot, there were points where its genious would shine throw even to a viewer as confused as me. I think to a scene in the resturant, where Neptune sits down for finner and Innocent joins her at the table. After speaking for a moment two soliders from the Authority step into the resturant. Fear takes over their faces and their whole demenor chnages. That fear was real, and eveoked the imagies of colonialism and authoritarianism that the film is trying to portray.