Is this flawless? No. Unnecessary drama, that is a tool to keep the story evolving. But what would this be without it? Two people laying in a room for 50 days.
I wrote a thought experiment, i designed many years ago now, which this film is essentially based upon. Imagine a room, an empty room, and you find yourself in it. You have no needs, not knowing what is outside or inside, till you need senses to recognize something or nothing. As a musician, i used this to express a question about structure and formality in society. If you were given a guitar, having never heard music. Would you play it? Would you know how to tune it? How would you tune it? Would you inevitably design music theory as it is today or would you invent your own? Or would you never touch it and never realize what it is for... it could be simply an object to admire, or if you are deaf, something to wonder about as the strings move. N you may never even recognize you are missing a sensory organ.
Over the years. Ive used it in countless way to dissect philosophically, what it means to be human, cognitive, to exist.. “i am”
So to see a film so direct in a projection of humanity today. It really helps people analyze quickly, that what we need is far more complex than sustaining life.