Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Rosetta Stone, a post doctoral academic doing a double major in computer science and biology has three clones of her mousy self. the clones all have different and fabulous hair, an affinity for shiny clothes, and a color theme for each. the clones are essentially addicts or vampires, and can only live on human male ejaculate (intravenously please). for some inadequately explained reason all the donors (hand selected by the lead clone, ruby) get sick, leading to the clones' near discovery, and just as inexplicably, the donors get well, just as ruby falls in love with a human male ejaculate producer. the academic and the clones are all played by tilda swinton.it has an interesting premise and a few developments that drive the narrative forward. but these twists aren't enough to sustain interest. Tilda Swinton is the most talented in the production, but she's hobbled by wretched dialog.looks gorgeous though. great wardrobe, set design, makeup. shame about the words coming out of the actors' mouths.

Why do the female computer programs have to inject themselves with sperm? And how do you get sperm inside of a computer program, anyway? These kinds of questions needs answering. It's not the sort of thing you can gloss over.This film is weird and silly and stupid. It's watchable -- I sat through the entire thing -- but it's utterly baffling. Things happen for no reason, problems are resolved effortlessly, no real tension to speak of, the science is glossed over and meaningless, the dialogue is goofy, there are holes in the plot that can swallow suns, and it's all very strange.Some of the sets are interesting, some of the acting is just plain bizarre. John Kornbluth -- the fat, bald man from "Haiku Tunnel" -- is particularly out of place. The picture's well filmed, and overall it's a very unusual movie -- but not unusual enough to be good. But not so bad that it's painfully bad.I have this odd feeling that there was some sort of metaphor at work here. Is it all about feminism? Technology? Lust? Finding yourself? What the hell is it about? I don't know -- and neither will you, if you can bring yourself to watch this film.Warning: It's cheesier than a mouse convention.

First of all, you can't look at this movie in terms of realism, it's just a big psychadelic dream. Yes, we all know computer viruses and human viruses can't be transmitted to one another; but it's also not the point of this movie. This movie has to be looked upon as pure fantasy, not as a study of possible future reality. Hell, the solid red, green, and yellow color schemes should clue you in that this is more like 60's psychadelic dreams. Other clues that this is fantasy is that Rosetta talks to her clones, Ruby, Olive, and Marine through a microwave oven!One great line in the movie that really got me rolling on the floor was when Olive tells Marine that a virus that she just eradicated was from an attachment, and Marine responds that "Rosetta was right attachments are dangerous". Of course, this was double entendre, one meaning of the word "attachment" meant email attachments, while the other one meant relationships. If you didn't understand this movie the first time, then you owe it to yourself to watch it again to catch all of these little pokes at modern life.

Tilda was fantastic. The HD colors were sublime. The work was very successful in pointing out some contemporary feminist concerns in a smart, creative and witty fashion. I enjoyed it through and through. Can't wait to see what comes next from Lynn Hershman-Leeson!