The Penultimate (2020)

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Overview

An unimportant water inspector arrives at a huge, isolated building to register residents’ water meters, but quickly becomes trapped inside. As he searches for a way out, the place turns into a surreal, Kafkaesque maze that steadily upends his sense of reality and what it means to stay human.

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Pros: surreal maze-like tension; Kafkaesque atmosphere; unsettling mystery | Cons: deliberately confusing; slow, repetitive stretches; emotionally distant tone

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If you enjoy surreal, Kafkaesque stories about ordinary people trapped in baffling systems, this could work for you; Not for you if you want clear answers, fast pacing, or grounded realism like in Winter Brothers.

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bäversvans

A sequence of absurd scenes that are connected by the lack of a narrative. Very pretty but that's not nearly enough. Slow, tedious and empty. Influences of Kafka and Beckett in a 1990s minimalistic stage setting but lacking the subtext of the original works. Or if there was one, I was too bored to care.