Saw this at the Imagine filmfestival 2021, usually in Amsterdam but now 100% online. The plot seems simplistic. As a thought experiment, think of yourself immersed in city night life without understanding any of it, yet randomly picking up facts-of-life along the way, testing it on people you meet.
In the first half, too many of the scenes involve sex, be it m/m of m/f. That changed in the second half, paying more attention to other matters of life&death. As in passing we see some unworldly powers, like healing a man with a heart attack, or switching TV channels by blinking. "Barry" (mind the quote) learns sentences he hears, without knowing their purpose nor the appropriate context. Everyone he meets treats him as a normal human being, and only we viewers know it is not true.
The basic idea is very interesting, but it wears out along the running time, merely turning into a running gag. Nevertheless, we must admire the variety of situations we get to watch, each very different from the previous. And finally, a SciFi-ish wrapup, very unexpectedly.
In the first half, too many of the scenes involve sex, be it m/m of m/f. That changed in the second half, paying more attention to other matters of life&death. As in passing we see some unworldly powers, like healing a man with a heart attack, or switching TV channels by blinking. "Barry" (mind the quote) learns sentences he hears, without knowing their purpose nor the appropriate context. Everyone he meets treats him as a normal human being, and only we viewers know it is not true.
The basic idea is very interesting, but it wears out along the running time, merely turning into a running gag. Nevertheless, we must admire the variety of situations we get to watch, each very different from the previous. And finally, a SciFi-ish wrapup, very unexpectedly.