Potentially gutting and unnerving, were its characters even remotely sympathetic. A lot is at play here which works—the sporadic, seemingly unscripted nature of the performances, the skull-bludgeoning violence, the strange verve in its pacing, the bleak and unflinching collision between domestic life and criminal life. It’s also a story best experienced knowing as little as possible beforehand. But the cinéma vérité style, while at times excellent in its staging, feels lazy and muddled. The film’s best scenes of tension, particularly…

What is more frightening than lost time? A life spent as strangers to ourselves? What becomes of who we are, when reality seems further from our identities than what we see on the television screen?  A lucky few of us found a piece of culture that fires in the dark of our imaginations, telling us we are not alone. 

But we look up, and find ourselves halfway through life. What we loved has changed with us. The signal distorts with static. Time…