what hopkins do succeed at with this effort a writer and director be give u a sense that we know absolutely no one in the film . however and perhaps therein lie the problem . his movie have a lot of ambition and his intention be obviously complex and drawn from very deep within and but it so impersonal . there be no character . we never know who anyone be and thus there be no investment on our part . it could be about a screenwriter intermingle with his own character . be it . maybe . by that i do not mean that slipstream be ambiguous while i mean that there be no tell . hopkins film be an experiment . on the face of it and one could make the case that it be about a would be screenwriter and who at the very moment of his meeting with fate and realize that life be hit and miss and and or or success be blind chance and a he be hurl into a slipstream of collision between point in time and dream and thought and and reality . nevertheless and it be so unremittingly cerebral that it leave no room for any hint of emotion and even to the tiny and quite rudimentary extent of allow u a connection with it character . i do not think the nippy and flamboyant school of shaky and machine gun speed camera work and edit disengage me and but reflect upon the film i be begin to realize that it have a lot to do with it . there be so many movie of the past decade in which the cut or camera movement have sound effect as well a other atmosphere deteriorate technical doodad . i suppose in this case it be justify in that it purpose be to compose the impressionistic responsiveness of dream . however and i know barely anything about slipstream when watch it and and i come out the same way . and i just do not care and because hopkins make no effort to make u care . there be interactive movie and and there be movie that sit in a rocking chair and knit and unaware of your presence . slipstream be the latter .