The July/August 2010 issue of Duellanti magazine features my extended review of Richard Kelly's "The Box", this month's cover story. A box office disaster, Kelly's latest movie has been hastily dismissed by most critics as "confusing" and "pretentious". On the contrary, I found it challenging and intriguing. Think of The Box as a retrofitted episode of "Twilight Zone" with a dash of Sartre's existentialism and The X-Files' paranoia. It's a black box that captures our attention, demanding a fine decoding. You don't simply watch The Box. You engage with it. It's a Pandora's box of a movie, a sci-fi experiment in slow motion, a metaphysical investigation of the human soul, a puzzle game that requires viewers willing to play. Here micro (the implosion of an average American family) and the macro (the implosion of society as a whole) converge. The Box is really a pre-apocalytpic movie.
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