While the setting and action in this movie are seemingly brutally naturalistic, the execution is confusing and unsubstantial. The story ends up being too mundane and dull to have some symbolic meaning, yet too figurative and inexplicable to be interestingly realistic. Visually the movie is dark, though it take place outdoors much of the time, and seems filled with meaningless shots. The dialogue is hard to understand, though the characters are too unperceptive to say anything worth listening to anyway. The protagonist is constantly falling asleep, dreaming, and being startled awake. He seems to exist in a state of stupor, his actions exhibiting no intelligence. He stumbles through the events of the movie without learning anything or changing at all, though I suppose there is supposed to be some thread of redemption. I guess this movie could be a representation of real life, dumb and pointless, but that's not much of a story.
Review of A Single Shot
