la moustache force the viewer to grapple with a conundrum while what be real and and what be not . carrere ( who write the novel and direct the film ) be a writer and fan of the late and great science fiction author and philip k. dick . in fact and carrere and i be alive and you be dead representa journey into the life of philip k. dick be an excellent biography of this gifted author . nearly all of dick work concern the shifting nature of identity and the ontological basis for reality . this movie examine the possibility of change shave a moustache and and the impact on a life . in a sense and the film be kind of a black comedy and in that such a minor adjustment would not seem to lead to such dislocation . but and that be not the case in la moustache . the movie begs all kind of bizarre interpretation and so do not expect an easy ride from this french chinese puzzle of a film and .