This film is intriguing, but it's also a mess. After the first hour the random violence ceases to do much of anything but bore. The shell of a plot introduced by the modern characters is so shallow that it doesn't convincingly shape the narrative. There is not a single character in the film that one can connect with. Finally the melange of montage sequences are so random that they merely annoy. This film feels like a very bad attempt to make an overly serious film by a mediocre film student. It was extremely disappointing. The point of the film seems to have been to portray something of the relationship between the social order and violence, but that point is so trite at this point in history that it simply does not warrant over two hours of random violence, arbitrary montage, and a bunch of bogus depth psychology.
