THE MIRROR IN THE CAGE (483 ticks) (Rated: ZZZ) (H'poctyl)
Another in a long line of tedious Sraffan art films that attempt to achieve insight into the sentient condition but instead fall into triteness and predictability. In this case, the filmmaker (Gluon-38) uses the tangentially-intertwined lives of nine Sraffans to make the point that we all build cages around ourselves, but that those cages are the reflections of our own desires and shortcomings; thus, in our own imprisonment is written the self-fulfilling sentences of our inner souls. The imagery of locks and bars seen, distorted, in one reflective surface after another is heavy-handed and tedious. And, speaking of tedious, at 483 ticks it will take an iron tail and a bottle of tranks to sit all the way through this one.