"Those who master the micro shall master the macro"

This is a Bizarre film that plays with theme of time which serves as the main beams for the exploration of Goku, the poet protagonist of Kanai's THE KINGDOM who wages war against Chronos, the god of time - against a notion of time as linear, measured, and irreversible. Visually creative (and very beautiful) when it serves the progress of the suggestions contained in the film, it is a film of multiple moments without any of them being detached from the single form or purpose. The chant is repeated through the film "Those who master the micro shall master the macro" and the different levels become blurred in the mind of the viewer, and so the film still needs some time to reflect in its thoughts and develop its full potential - after the film is in the film. The Galapagos Island and Kronos Convention (secret society with Kanai Katsu in cameo) sequence is shot brilliantly. Overall, the film shows wonderfully bizarre pictures that form a successful symbiosis of strange aesthetics, it is obviously about unsettling, because Kanai Katsu delivers puzzle pieces without ultimately offering a solution. Which pictures are expressionistic metaphors, which pictures show what really happens? It's like Terror and fascination mixed in a work that will never end and whose surprising effect will not diminish with time, even those who did not appreciate it. "The Kingdom" is a very intoxicating, unusual film in Kanai Katsu's Trilogy, leaving you with an experience that hypnotizes over long distances and impresses with its artistic power. However, it is not just the great staging, with wonderfully bizarre ideas and wonderful colors, that makes the film, but the weird story and the characters of the film especially the professor of ornithology. Final Verdict, it is a film that can only be recommended to very experimental audiences. Everyone else will probably worry about the runtime and wasted time in between.

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