One of
the really wondrous things here is the way that the basic realism of Schrader's style — the stark, natural lighting; slow, precise cutting; flat, cavernous sound design — gradually starts warping in sync with its protagonist's consciousness.
Not exact matches
The film asks who we
really are inside, explores the ideas of illusion vs. reality, what is artificial vs. what is human, the scary end of all
things vs. the
wondrous beginning of something else entirely different and new.
In the past this has worked out fine, because cheap oil and gasoline is indeed a
wondrous thing, allowing huge construction projects with
really minor human involvement.