Ringgold Street

Mesmerizing visuals, and the foundations of a great mythic adventure but fails at a storytelling level. It's a movie you watch with high hopes and as it plays out you're waiting for the "click" where the choices the filmmakers have made pay off -- but that moment never comes. What you're left with is a collection of memorable visual moments but little else. Maybe it was the filmmakers intention to create a dreamlike experience with the same level of incomprehension that dreams have. But the difference is we have no choice and are unconscious when dreaming -- that's not the case with watching a movie. My conscious brain wanted more narrative meat on the symbolic bones. A brain can't survive on visual symbolism alone!