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Although Reid wants to go on a business trip, things turn out completely and he thinks about something else. That story began when Reed brought a toothbrush and several killers. Reid seems to want a controversial mission where everything is carefully planned. It is a major killing in order for Reid to rid himself of his malicious motives and continue to be a good husband and father. Although things are going well, Reid changes his life exactly when Jackie enters his room, a seductive invitation girl who reaches his room unplanned.
Pesce deploys a potent arsenal of stylistic tools - urban landscape miniatures, plushly disquieting Lynchian interiors, flashbacks, creature effects, and florid gore - to tell the story of Reed.
Darkly funny, but still unapologetically grim, this plays very much like a modern version of Takashi Miike's iconic 1999 film Audition, only with a lot less of a brutal finale.
Piercing is an unsuccessful provocation, and I didn't get anything out of it beyond a few wispy ideas about how we may never really understand what we want from each other.
The dream-team pairing of Abbott and Wasikowska, two of the most interesting, subtle and risk-loving performers of their generation, is a huge compensation.