This film is surprisingly good! It's "no budget" (or perhaps very low budget) but it doesn't skimp out on filming on location (when possible). The film itself feels like a baby between Synecdoche,...
This film is surprisingly good! It's "no budget" (or perhaps very low budget) but it doesn't skimp out on filming on location (when possible).
The film itself feels like a baby between Synecdoche, New York and Survive Style 5+.
It's explained pretty well that the author of the book decided not to participate in the film so they have one actor pretending to be the "real" Tao Lin and one actor pretending to be the actor that will play him in the film (there are multiple meta layers going on).
This film is surprisingly good! It's "no budget" (or perhaps very low budget) but it doesn't skimp out on filming on location (when possible).
The film itself feels like a baby between Synecdoche, New York and Survive Style 5+.
It's explained pretty well that the author of the book decided not to participate in the film so they have one actor pretending to be the "real" Tao Lin and one actor pretending to be the actor that will play him in the film (there are multiple meta layers going on).