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I like movies that only show their real meaning at the end.. and this one was brilliant!

Surreal! Very surreal. The colors, the atmosphere, the transitions – it's a piece of art!
It doesn't make much sense until the very end but "there's too much beauty to quit."

A very tense film with great performances. A very unexpected and really good twist.

For those who loves sci-fi, weirds dramas/thriller.

One of the best movies I seen so far. Many people might find it underwhelming once the movie concludes. But the build-up and writing is very remarkable. Keeping in mind this was released before shutter island, and I watched this later, I would definitely place both movies in same genre. And it delivers what it's supposed to. Definitely a worth watch.

I don't really understand all the reviews everywhere saying 'I don't get it'. I didn't think the ending was that hard to understand. A truly beautiful film. Go in blind and just enjoy the ride.

Awesome movie. You don't give any idea of what is happening up to the and, and even at that time, is not clear at all.

**Worth watching on a lazy winter morning. Rain, or hail, preferred.**

While some may not prefer it, the seamless transitions between scenes beautifully convey the headspace of the main characters and complement the story well.
>Lila Culpepper: “There's too much beauty to quit.”

Without spoilers, this is a very well constructed movie that I felt wasn't written as well as it thinks it is but it's still a good watch

Now spoilers:
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I'm really not particularly a fan of "it was all a dream" endings and this movie seems to have been made in the height of that phenomenon following The Sixth Sense. Despite that, I suppose what elevates this movie significantly and makes the ending work is that the movie never really lies to you. It makes it very apparent very early on that it is a dream. The choices made by the director in the editing, the clever scene transitions and the easter eggs peppered throughout make it very obvious that all is not as it seems and it disorients you constantly
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In that way, the movie is very well made. A lot of very clever choices were made and the movie tells a lot just by showing. For eg. for the most part, every scene set in a stairwell is always shown with the characters going down, the use of morph transitions occasionally makes you mistrust what you see and so on
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I suppose my big problem is with the writing. Now I didn't really like that the primary POV, that of Doctor Sam was fake. It seemed quite disingenuous that we see Sam losing his mind more so than Henry who gets very little screen time yet is the one who is dreaming. The movie also gave itself away far too early. Maybe it's just me having watched so many movies but it was highly apparent from the first scene of the car crash and Henry walking away that that was what had happened. Any other attempts at trying to convince me, the viewer, that maybe Sam was losing his mind really made no sense and I was expecting Sam to be a figment of his imagination. This meant I was pretty severely disappointed that Sam was a bystander helping out the dying Henry. The ending of Sam asking Lila out was also a very contrived moment that I really disliked and would have worked better if they'd exchanged numbers as witnesses to an accident. The whole movie could have tried to be more subtle but I felt the writing was trying way too hard and going "YOU GET IT YET? YOU GET IT? IT'S A DREAM DO YOU GET IT?" at me without really earning it
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>*"There's too much beauty to quit."*

Somewhere between *Enemy*, *Unsane* and *Donnie Darko* with a mindfuck question reality psychological madness plot. It's depressing with a dash of hope. Solid mystery that had me glued to the screen for most of it. Nothing phenomenal but some good performances from Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling and Naomi Watts (who was underused in the second half). Very good looking movie with wild camerawork and editing. Nice score, dialogue and atmospheric with the moody gloomy trippy visuals.

I'm mixed on the characters, not bad by any means but for some reason I couldn't really connect or even care for them. Because of this, I didn't really feel much once the twist and ending hit. Up until the twist happened I kept thinking "this movie makes no sense" which might have diminished my enjoyment a little and because of that I believe it's a movie that needs to be rewatched to be fully appreciated. As for the twist itself I have mixed feelings, it's a great twist but I think it could have been executed better.

Pretty good. Didn't need to go that hard it felt like but the second watch really helped!