"I was
fourteen years old the first time I killed a man." Even though the kid was
saving a girl from being raped and murdered, "that's not the way justice
works."
Twenty-five
years later, the same girl he rescued contacts him again. The night the two
meet at the restaurant, terror and confusion strike―suddenly, everyone in the
place is dead, including the girl he saved when they were kids. What happened
here? And why was there no mention of this tragic incident in the news? Was it
his imagination? "It certainly [was] an oblique situation"―devious and misleading.
In this
tale, one disoriented man makes a mad and desperate attempt to find the truth
and what was real. He becomes a paranoid mess.
Simple and
strangely compelling. You can't help but wonder if all this was real or if the
man was just going crazy. But then it goes from weird to weirder. I mean, who
checks into a motel one night and wakes up outside a forest lodge? I'm like,
"Huh?" Throughout the whole thing, you feel like you're going just as
crazy as the character. I mean, nothing was making any sense. You're just lost
and confused the whole way.
But then our
hero somehow finds himself in a far-away town, where he sees a 25-year old
picture of a girl that went missing―the very same girl he had dinner with 3
nights ago. What? Turns out that girl had died shortly after she went missing. Oh
snap!
This strange
case of a disillusioned man and his "ghostly" encounter with a dead
girl and his grim realities was just too good of a concept; however, at times,
it can be a little too confusing and there was often a lag. Story ultimately
follows the trail of paranoia and a lost mystery. I couldn't help but wonder if
the guy was just fooling himself and wasting time on something that wasn't really
there. I enjoyed the mystery aspect and saw the potential in it, but I wasn't
too keen on the overall progression.
My rating: 3 stars
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