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It's short, it's quirky. It's fun. It's cute. The artwork is terrific and very imaginative. It takes place in the future, though dated in the movie as 2017. I don't remember flying cars or intergalactic travel back in '17. But maybe I missed it.

The hero of the movie, Ozanzigwan, is an agent of the League of Interplanetary Process Servers (L. I. P. S.) and is hell-bent on achieving the record for the most subpoenas served in a fiscal year. But as it turns out, he's 30 subpoenas short of the record,behind Luna Lou, with just ten minutes left to beat out ! Exciting, yes. Even though the story is a little ...uhh, weak?

But the acting and animation make for lots of excitement and thrills.

There are plenty of terrific characters on hand, though most are not humans. So much going on in the background. Fast and furious action once things get going to keep you interested throughout the 22 minute running time.

Acting is heroic, though not quite reaching the level of Shakespearian. Ryland Brickson Cole Tews is lotsa fun to watch.

This was followed by Lake Michigan Island in 2018, which is a total blast!, and Hundreds of Beavers in 2022.

The film is certainly strange. The plot starts out a little, well, strange, but I think the film really holds it's own and comes together.

Had Ingmar Bergman made this very film, people would be raving about it. But personally, I think it was more engaging than a Bergman film. It had a sense of humor about itself.

The acting was good. Really good! I'm still dumbfounded that Jaime Lee Curtis won an Academy Award for her role in Everything All At Once. If she earned that award, there are at LEAST two deserved award for actors in this film. Namely Damian Joseph Quinn, who plays Alex, and Elizabeth Grullon who plays Stephanie. Other actors were good, but these two were real standouts.

The story takes a few minutes to get into, but once you catch on to the dynamics, it gels. It's got a lot of surprises. Things you don't expect because they're the usual routine or storyline of other movies.

Clearly, judging from the User Reviews, this film isn't for everyone. But if you enjoy something off the beaten path, I'd recommend giving this one a spin.

The film has some good acting. The score is good. The story? Not so good.

It took me a good while to figure out why the protagonist. Tobin, was not allowed out of his room, because there is little to no hint in the script.

Presumably, it's because he recently came to Australia for his dad's funeral, and is in mandated quarantine during the Covid epidemic. But that's never made fully clear in the movie.

Unless I'm just dense, there's also little to no hints in the script about why what is happening in the movie is going on.

There are just too many unknowns in this film, and in the end, I still didn't really understand exactly what happened, or what the point of it was.

Yes, there are inner demons that come from our pasts, and those play a part in this film. Yet, they might be just too subtle. Too deeply hidden. Not enough explanation to clearly see or understand them.

In the film, Tobin is rehearsing for a part of Tom in "The Glass Menagerie." Maybe you'll see parallels between Tom and Tobin. I thought the more obvious parallel was with Tom's broken sister, Laura. But that doesn't begin to explain the goings on in the film.

I suppose one could mine the film deeply for meaning. Maybe I missed some of it. But I just didn't think it was worth all the effort of trying to figure out exactly what was being represented by objects, such as a recurring red shirt and a pair of cufflinks, to spend too much analytical effort on it.

I read some mainstream reviews of the film, which clearly thought more highly of it than I did. So you might be enthralled by this one.

If you're game, you'll have to dig the meanings out of the mine yourself, because I don't think the screenplay will explain it to you.