It hues a bit close to contemporary artsy thriller cliches for my taste, but I still very much enjoyed it. Beautifully shot, and even though it moves through a lot of different settings they all feel like pieces of a whole. Scarlett Johansson never had an otherworldly vibe to me, but she really impressed me, she must have a ton of untapped range.
Different than I expected in some ways but Jarmusch's best at least since Dead Man. Weirdly structured and both hazy and sharp if that's at all helpful. Some of the best actors working from a few generations just going in without showing off.
Beautiful organic choreography; I love shots that show people moving this way, so one of them was plenty for a good short.
I don't know why the above is considered the first reverse tracking shot when this came three years earlier, I'm guessing it has something to do with it being taken from a train. Anyhow, you can't go wrong with trains, especially when you're watching reverse entropy with the backwards progress of the train -- at least it's backwards from this perspective...deep shit.
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