What pulls us
into this mélange of cross-species teen romance, coming - of - age story, and
occultism is Liang and Zhang's loving, unhurried creation of an alternative universe.
After this anecdote, Mohr digressed
into a lengthy speech loosely centered on California, mentioning a disparate range of cultural figures and ideas that included Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, adolescence, the culture industry, sadomasochism, music, William S. Burroughs, Walter Benjamin, Mickey Mouse, National Socialism,
occultism, imposture, and narcissism — to name a few.