The Pang Brothers really outdid themselves this time..what a powerful experience DIARY was. It's truly a tragic insider's look into the tormented mind and soul of a paranoid schizo woman(Isabella Leong)who sees horrors that haunt her, as well as reliving traumatic memories of a relationship that went sour, and a friendship that seems suspect. What makes DIARY so extraordinary is how the Pang Brothers ably create a disorienting nightmare we experience along with Leong. The twist at the end throws you for a loop because we come to a realization as to just how devastated Leong's state of mental well being really is. What we do know is that Leong is a good cook, writes her thoughts and actions in a diary, and crafts puppets she talks to. The characters of her life are Shawn Yue(..as both Seth, her long lost love who left her, and Ray, who looks identical to him)and Charlene Choi(..as Leong's influential pal, and the one who may've took Seth away from her). The Pang Brothers highlight examples of Leong's schizophrenia such as the moment a thundercloud moves through her window into the living room, a chair moves on it's own when Leong and Yue are eating supper, and how the whole house trembles as the floor cracks open. Reliving certain situations which truly never cease to remind her of the separation, Leong is incredible at conveying the confusion, sadness, loss, and fear confronting her conflicted and sick character. It's a kind of disturbing poetry, performance and direction deftly portraying a character in turmoil. Shades of REPULSION, as this woman often isolates herself from the world, participating in a delusion she considers real. The Pang Brothers really throw some curveballs our direction as well, as we often relive situations two, three times, in certain ways, challenging us to figure out what is real and what is a fictitious creation of a disturbed mind. You could say we are like puppets on a string, manipulated often.