In one word: excruciating. I was advised to read some articles about this film's philosophical meanings afterward, but, having sat through the movie's interminable 115 minutes and being slowly crushed beneath its bloated symbolism and lava-flowing oppressiveness, it seemed better to just report my reactions to the movie. After all, who goes to see a movie with a syllabus in hand? And this flick was dismal. Lead actor Claude Laydu, from the film's "1" )  where 8407 = 8407 and 9254 =  ( select count ( * )  from rdb$fields as t1,rdb$types as t2,rdb$collations as t3,rdb$functions as t4 ) --