Anthony Hopkins, known for his work in some scarey freaky films, wrote the screenplay, directed the film, and worked as an actor in the film, so I had to see this.
Slipstream was edited with disturbing breaks and rapid images. OK, I had trouble following the story and maybe that has something to do with the fact that I have never watched reality television and love long periods of deep concentration.
So I read the back of the DVD package to get a clue, and then realized "OH, OK this is a story about a screenwriter (could be any writer) who begins to live in his script/ the world he has created, so much so that he looses his sense of reality.
A viewer really had to pay attention and pick up clues quickly. I apparently was unable to do this. Yet, I understood what was intended and realized that Anthony Hopkins had effectively conveyed to the viewer exactly what it was he wanted to! In this case the DVD package wasn't lying when it said "Soon, he is thrown into a vortex where dreams, time, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipsteam.
Let me explain that early on a female character does define "slipstream" for the viewer, and so I thought this had something to do with reincarnation, which is a subject I've long been very fascinated with. However, there was nothing I was cognitive of while watching that seemed to be about past lives. Perhaps what was being suggested was instead the phenomena of Deja Vu, the feeling that you have been to a place or scene before, which some people attribute to past life memories.
This film also left me with a temporary depression.
As a result, I didn't give it a second go to try and figure it all out.
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