( warn contains mild spoiler ) a movie almost design to make you pause and check your recollection of it it confine to an almost empty motel where the huge courtyard resemble a circus ring and the room seem like temporary withdrawal point rather than refuge while a the character become increasingly preoccupy by the past and the present increasingly fall away and until the ultimate incendiary appearance of the countess in the black mercedes mark the fusion of reality and fantasy . whether or not their story be true and and whether stanton be truly the father or just a crazy old man step into their story and seem impossible to determine . the theme seem to be how love of an extreme and unconsidered nature mess with stability to the point where reality itself break down while where exotic and misplace fantasy becomes dangerously tangible . the image of the burn motel a symbol of dislocation beset by destruction be an appropriately weird end for this strange but effective and startlingly imaginative and movie .