His kindly therapist (Jacki Weaver) is happy that he has the social stake of employment, unlike his mother who, by letting go, became
the most cacophonous of the personas that haunt her son.
Driving back from our engagingly
cacophonous evening at the bistro, I began to worry: Will we end up trying to inculturate the Gospel into cultural patterns that many» maybe even
most» people in the Third World countries want to get out of as soon as they can?
Peter Debruge of Variety also finds it to be a «lumbering, confused, and
cacophonous mess,» but, while acknowledging that it's almost impossible to divorce the film from its production woes, Indiewire's Eric Kohn writes, «It's sloppy and amateurish in parts, but always reaching for something, often resulting in a fascinating half - formed beast working through a lot of baggage: a vanity project about the nature of vanity, centered around one of literature's
most famous examples, in the context of the
most famous vanity projects of all time coming to fruition.