Like Minds

*"It was strange. I almost missed him. We kept our distance. But I felt that my thoughts were no longer my own. The further I sank, the stronger he became. It was like he had taken my soul."* First of all, I loved how the characters felt so distance, as if they didn’t even belong in the same world. Yet whenever they were in the same room, it was as though their minds collapsed into one another. Alex and Nigel are incredibly complex characters and it was fascinating to piece together their identities as you get to involve yourself with their separate universes while at the same time getting the excitement of becoming strangely attached to their bizarre and far from average relationship dynamic. As the story unfolds, it becomes harder and harder to distinguish between their thoughts and ideas, as though they are slowly sinking into each other’s minds. This movie felt so real that it seemed as if there were a universe where I could actually live it and feel everything as if only I could understand it and appreciate its dark beauty. At the same time I could never experience it the way I wanted the way it was meant to be lived and seen. All in all, that impossible balance between intimacy and distance is what I admire most about this movie.