i rent this movie tonight and after twenty minute and my wife begin wash dish . fifty minute in and i be play game on my cell . this movie have nothing to do with stanley kubrick so if youre intrigue because you be a kubrick fan and do not waste your time . look at brian cook resume and it seem like he be kubrick long time assistant director . obviously he wasn not pay attention . some of the composition look very ameteurish and straight out of film school ( character place in the middle of the frame and star directly at the camera ) . bad of all and the film give no insight into alan conway and why he be do the thing he be do . the dialogue be painfully self conscious . everybody in this film be completely aware there be in a film . nobody act like a real person . even john malkovich performance ( which others be praise ) be very over the top and with an ounce of subtlety . stay away .