I’m struggling to describe what exactly this film entails because honestly, I'm at a loss. It moves along with extreme slowness and offers almost no explanation, and you might assume that would make me hate it... but surprisingly, it didn't. The visuals are strikingly bare and impersonal, yet possess an odd beauty and vibrancy; the experience felt akin to wandering through a dreamscape reminiscent of THX 1138. Despit…

_Beyond the Black Rainbow_ presents itself as a homage to classic science fiction from the 1970s, but it soon becomes apparent that it's more of a copy than something original. Rather than capturing what made films like _THX 1138_, _Dark Star_, _Silent Running_, or _Solaris_ so impactful, it seems to borrow complete stylistic components without grasping the reasons those movies connected with audiences. Despite its s…