


As first glance, "Survival Style 5+" would seem a totally bizarre film-going experience. It will be most helpful to readers who have already viewed the film. The rest of my review provides an analysis of the meaning behind the lushly colorful sets and the exaggerated bizarreness.

FINAL VERDICT: highly recommended if you don't mind bizarre exaggerated randomness. It has style and substance, albeit a lot of style. However, beyond the exaggerated random bizarreness, the film doth have meanings that we can take away. 8/10įirst, a brief advice for those who haven't seen the film: expect bizarreness, randomness, random bizarreness, exaggerated randomness, and exaggerated bizarreness. There's symbolism if you look hard enough, but the joy of the movie is the way it deals with different themes - homosexuality, identity, love and death - and shows us that life is indeed a little bit crazy. This is a visual and stylish delight, as well as little bit of a mindtrip. Five stories are intertwined, sometimes subtly and others obviously, Tarantino/Ritchie mode, and they all deal with crazy stuff. On a second viewing the themes become more apparent, and this is a movie you'll want to see (at least) twice. This movie is absurdingly complicated in a first viewing, yet it delivers with, yes, absolute style. They try different, previously unheard of things, and sometimes it's genius and sometimes it's a dud. I would describe this movie as both an expression and example of the people who 'try to fly' - and they are usually considered crazy in society. Just like Seal's 90's hit, "in a world full of people, there's always someone to fly".
