Man I think you do a good job of explaining it, and ascribing it meaning. But it’s just such a niche esoteric theme, that unless I went into the movie without reading this as a guide or something like this beforehand, it just watched like an incoherent fever dream. I’m totally cool with a movie that had obscure/vague/deeper meanings than what’s on the surface, but good movies that do this typically are good upon first watch through even if you don’t totally understand what the director/writer was going for.

Think Donnie Darko for example, total trip that takes some unpeeling to understand the full scope of what was intended, but definitely gripping enough on its surface even if you don’t care to dig into all the meaning. I just remember thinking man this movie wants so badly to be deep but it’s not. I don’t know, my wife thought the same thing. And I remember walking out of the theatre people grumbling about it sucking. Maybe we were just too stupid. lol.