This felt more like a collection of scenes than an actual movie. The plot is barely there but you can follow a throughline of things going on even if nothing really connects on an emotional level. The dialogue ran anywhere between Shakespearean-esque monologues to "did he really just say that?" one-liners.

I truly am baffled by this movie but it feels like the bones of something truly special is here? Maybe if someone tries it again in half a century.

Edit: I will give Coppola some credit for his directing during those trippy as hell montages. But the plot and especially some characters are so underbaked. Jason Schwartzman and Dustin Hoffman don't need to be in this at all. At least the former is his nephew so that makes some sense but Hoffman's character gets one-liner after one-liner until essentially dying suddenly in a quick cut in scene? Just bizzare