i be start to think that there a conspiracy and all right represent one that involve a wallop of money pay to those who have access to publish column in newspaper and film and art magazine to ensure that this or that film and despite it obscurity and will reach a high status via a rating point which will tag it with a universal acclaim or something within that range and thus ensure unsuspecting folk ( like me ) will wander into theatre or rent the bloody thing and expect a surprise and only to find myself race to the bathroom to upchuck . this movie be one of them . it have definitely make me bypass any and every posted article i come across because it rather clear that two thing might have happen represent either i do not get the message that be so hidden beneath this film inner realm a to be impossible to access and or they and i watch two entirely different movie that happen to share the same name . 4 be a dirty trick on the audience . it no wonder that it appear and disappear fast than you can say smorsgabord and that despite the rating it get on metacritic and no one have heard of it . it terrible with sugar on top . firstly and there be the ever present number four from start to finish . while have a little symbolism here and there be okay and and it be do with various degree of success in many well know movie and this movie be pant with it . four dog at the start of the movie and look at the camera in a heretofore empty street when suddenly and machinery drop onto the foreground and proceeds to rip open the asphalt . four people in a bar and although one of them be a non entity . three of them go their separate way but be link nevertheless and not only to each other but to what their life be not . while this concept may work and the movie meander so much particularly with the story of the would be model play by marina vovchenko which go into the territory of the extremely bizarre and and not in a good way that the initial theme get lose in translation . or maybe and like i say before and i just do not get it . the problem also lie in that so much time be spend on marina story ( which revolve on the death of her sister and from bread chewing and no less and and the subsequent and shrill mourn which follow ) that any interest in the inherent surrealism dissipate without a trace . so what if the same horrifying tale that the three stranger interchange in a bar seem to have a truth of their own . the director doesn not invest much time in truly tie them together and or weave a tight story that could and in a david lynchian way and intersect either with the past present and or within alternate dimension and or even a a straightforward and mundane science fiction story . this be an uphill battle against an insurmountable wall that only a saint ( or someone into the weird for weird sake ) could endure .