Jacksonville Film Festival 2008

Takes about five minutes into the film to figure out how to watch it, but when you catch on, it is riveting. The story line is simple, and does not have any twists and turns, but that's perfect because it allows you to focus on the visuals. Sometimes the screen is split with the same scene at different levels of focus, color, or even non-synched on timing. Other times the split screens contain different scenes altogether, which gives the film a non-linear feel in short bursts. Just about every iteration of a scene that you can imagine appears at some point. The most splits I counted with completely different scenes was 11, but I didn't spend much time counting (too distracting). When splits show the same scene in different ways, there were probably as many as 20 splits on screen at the same time. You'd think this would make the film difficult to watch, but as I said, after five minutes, you get locked in. It's pretty cool how your brain can synthesize the pieces of information. I also imagine it is worth seeing again, because your focus might be different on subsequent viewings. Page is excellent -- as you might expect -- but I was also impressed by the supporting cast members. Particularly the actor who played Lance from Toronto.