the ambitious script deserve some credit for the way it keep intercutting the past with the present tense and a technique that result in some intriguing effect while in one scene we see somebody kill and in the next scene there he be and move and talk . but and the pace of the film be plod and the performance detach and completely unengaging ( or maybe the character be detach and completely unengaging while in any case and you do not sympathize with them ) and the direction too arty ( for example and a driving scene with no dialogue run about five minute and while one of karen black melancholy song play on the soundtrack ) . plus and the vhs print i saw be severely damage . ( ) .