The trick at the center of the film, of course, is that its message doesn’t seem subversive or challenging at all.
There’s only one thing to say about Carpenter’s sharp-witted, enormously entertaining masterpiece: BUY.
Revelation takes many forms, and David Milch chooses a more subdued and implicative tack in closing out this chapter of the show’s narrative.
Bill Plympton’s world of fantasy is right on target with that of fellow shock animator Don Hertzfeldt.