During the first half of this movie it was sometimes easy to forget that there was a plot, simply because of how much colossal film making there was. How easy it was to be completely bowled over by the immense effort that went into producing these images on film. I’ve almost never had an opportunity to see a movie like this, filmed this way, constructed this way, directed this way. At 8 million dollars, it seems almost impossible that someone was able to achieve grandeur like this. 
After the second half of the movie, it was hard not to walk back into the world even more disgusted by it than you were before you entered. It’s an almost unstoppable barrage of modern day connections and allusions and barely contained horrors of life in this country and what it does to people that are others. 
It’s incredible. A contemporary American epic about how sickening America is, and the corrosive nature of the American Dream.
2024 freakin ranked.