Can human beings really ever change? The title is what I wanted to explore in the film and I liked what I got ultimately but the journey is slow. The film however tries to portray the idea of rebirth in multiple thematic routes alongside different factors that are always common among human beings which means anyone can relate or experiment their ideas and ideologies in the subject matter. This is also the reason the movie can be considered as universal and timeless. This is one of Gasper Noe's favorites and I wasn't suprised why as the film's experimental camera work mesmerizes us right from the beginning and also has somewhat of an unpredictable setting. But the cinematography makes me question whether this is actually the cinema's first instance of a camera attached tracking shot or not? Whatever it maybe, it truly is a thing of psychological beauty. Puts the viewer in a dream like and sleepy mood everytime it's used which is also a necessarily apt choice for specific scenes. Editing is also unique with all the sudden cuts. At the same time, the screenwriting is somewhat of a questionable aspect with one of the main 'ocean loving' character almost consistently uttering unrealistically bizarre lines. The film seems to have been inspired from or is an inspiration for Teshigahara's The Face of Another (1966). Didn't know which came first but the parallels between both, especially some of the themes i.e, either 'fighting for freedom' or the 'inability to move on' are just very clearly alike. But what's fascinating about both of these movies is definitely how they experimented the basic idea in their own individual ways with almost drastically different genres and overall tones. Though it was unique and well executed, it weirdly felt slow and long even when it considerably has a fast enough pace.

A middle-aged banker is contacted by a mysterious caller claiming to be his dead friend, who refers him to an agency that provides people with what they call a "rebirth". The protagonist is shocked in hearing his dead friend's voice but decides to check the proposition out, which leads him to a path of no return. The philosophical side of what we deem as a "happy life" is questioned at length here, in a mystery setting. Whether happiness and success can be actually engineered to fit into a society is still a question. Truly one of the most astonishing movies I've ever seen.