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User review rating: 3 October 30, 2022

The film is inspired by the methodical stylizations of Errol Morris documentaries. Sort of a cross between "Poltergeist" and "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind", "Something In The Dirt" is a story of everyday people trying to understand the unfathomable. The film’s approach, both playful and creative, dons the attire of a fake documentary alternating between character's interviews and reconstructions. A mix of science fiction, paranoid thriller, and dark comedy, that pushes the envelope of what fiction can do. "Something In The Dirt" tells a tale of these paranoid times, where every answer imaginable is just a Google search away. This film feels like these things all definitely happened in our world. The dangers of conspiratorial thinking are a sort of mild current events vibration. The X-Files gavés us chills, through a prism of the reality we now live in, creating science fiction mythologies carries some dark baggage that's never intended. In many ways John and Levi are ultimately victims of thiat, this societal raw nerve threaded through their dark journey. We can call it science fiction, a pseudo-documentary, a paranoid thriller, a dark comedy, a character drama about two very flawed but oddly likable people, but ultimately the aim is that it’s very much it's own thing. This singular tone is always tough to crack. The film wants to create a feeling of unraveling a sinister mystery. Levi and John are tragically flawed people, and the film wants the audience’s sympathies to constantly shift with each new revelation. Much of the score is about tracking their transformations in and out of the audience's good graces, while giving levity the space it needs to coexist with the darkness. The film punches up the vérité creepiness along with some slightly surreal flourishes that never abandon reality. (2,5) Written by Gregory Mann

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