But the screenplay by Bruce Wagner, whose novels («I'll Let You Go,» «Still Holding») explore the film industry's demimonde, is way too erudite to be easily dismissed (a key plot
point involves surrealist poet Paul Eluard's «Liberté»).
Best of all, when the film reaches its logical end
point, Refn just keeps pushing, and eventually lands on a sequence so jaw - dropping —
involving the moon, an eye and a blade, perhaps in winking tribute to Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali's legendary
surrealist short Un Chien Andalou — that all you can do is howl or cheer.