The endless (2017)

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	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
	Actors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 09.09.2018, Cinema am Ostertor, Weird Xperience, English with German subtitle
Synopsis: This mind-bending thriller follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.
Review: The plot and the beginning of the story looks like a strong connotation for the Scientology or the Order of the Solar Temple or any narrow-minded, dangerous and self-destructive sect. Slowly this becomes more mysterious by suggesting the idea of personal time loop, of space-time wormhole, of multiple Moons. Then I realised that the movie was about the search for one self. Both having drastically different views in life and confront then rationality and irrationality, open-mindedness and narrow-mindedness. And that the success of the search for their own identity is based on their ability to accept being separated from their brother, to accept to get rid of some rules.  The complexity of the story with many loops, with many things running in parallel views or parallel worlds, is very digestible because the focus is always kept on the two brothers. Therefore the acting efforts look minor for the crew and huge for the two authors. I believe everyone on set had a strange time and a good time.  I loved the photography because it has a kind of documentary style but is actually extremely thought in order to make the optical effects and the surprise effects possible.  The performance of both Justing Benson and Aaron Moorhead on this movie is amazing. Writing, directing, producing, acting. And for me all of this with a great quality and talent. I am even more curious to watch the other movies of these promising talents.
Rating: 8 /10