No Blood

The protagonist is a writer, and that can be a bad sign. Often it means that the writer of the movie hasn't yet discovered anything more interesting than himself. But here it's a device that lets the protagonist give us a few words about the difference between a play and a movie: a movie is realistic, he says, whereas a play depends largely on the audience's imagination to fill in what's not visible on stage.

Then, impishly, the movie proceeds to show that a movie can also be largely about what it leaves you to imagine. The plot makes interesting feints, there are three mysteriously sketchy dark-haired women (I'm not sure I always managed to tell them apart), and while commenter Dromasca may be right that the movie's major femme fatale doesn't project all the appropriate charisma, there is a character billed as the Investigator--played by Sasi Samucha, who is a teacher of acting-- and that character does more than anyone else to carry the film. He seems to be so self-confident a master of his job with the police (or perhaps not exactly with the police) that he doesn't need to bother looking tough or impressive. The audience never knows what he's going to do, and the protagonist apparently fails to respect him as a source of danger, but he provides an anchor in that he alone seems to have a theory regarding what's going on.