Lack of good storyline.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This movie is actually pure genius. After looking past gasoline smoothies, throwing up blood, and the yelling of grandmother is a beautiful story. When I hit they hay late that night I thought of what was going on during that movie. After a day of thinking and research, I came to the conclusion that the woman in the movie is going through the levels of purgatory.The movie is the woman leading down levels of purgatory towards hell. As she committed more sins during the movie the closer she came towards hell. The ultimate thing sending her to hell was the killing of the two people she ran over and a man she had an affair with.With all this said the movie was amazing and did not get the recognization it deserved. With the acid tripping worthy story and teaching of levels of purgatory, it easily should have won multiple awards.

No matter what movie you may be looking for, The Oregonian can satisfy your cinematic needs. Through the many twists, turns, and bloody pissing scenes, The Oregonian keeps you on the edge of your seat, never being able to guess what will happen next. Despite The Oregonian being labeled as a "movie" I know it is so much more. The Oregonian can be correctly labeled as "a gift from god that miraculously escaped from the grasps of heaven and fell into the hands of us pathetic undeserving mortals". The Oregonian is the epitome of perfection and ultimate supremacy as no other movie even comes close to gracing the almighty transcendence that is The Oregonian. I had to take a break in the middle of writing this review solely to thank God for showing mercy upon my undeserving soul and allowing me to experience this piece of art first hand. The only bad thing about this movie is that now I cannot go about my days without worrying that I might be smitten down for watching a movie that I was so undeserving of. In all, if you feel that you are ready (you aren't) to experience this beautiful work of art, then go right ahead and experience this life- altering movie first hand. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.

The Oregonian is a tragic telling of a woman who gets in a car wreck in the middle of nowhere and tries to find her way to help. She comes across many individuals throughout her journey that bring her down different paths and show her a certain way of life. What the movie represents is life itself and the different paths we can go down on that journey. The girl herself resembles death as she is constantly shown in a red plaid shirt and covered in blood. Several times she attempts to wipe off the blood with water, but the red blood continues to reappear on her face which could show her attempt to escape from death. The red that she is surrounded foreshadows the path she chose as death came before her. The green that often appears with the green monster thing and the green room she goes through shows the path of life that she had the option of going down. In a later scene it is shown of her in the green monsters costume beating a man with a pipe. This ensues to her being covered in blood and the mixture of the colors green and red, or the two roads of life and death. One of the last scenes where the girl is seen having an omelet shoved into her represents fertility and her lack of such quality. This idea of fertility can be brought around to one of the earlier scenes where the girl's husband gets mad at her for having an affair, which can be assumed to have been brought up to her lack of fertility. We also see the idea of infertility when the man makes eggs and leaves the cracked eggs in the toilet for the girl to see. With this being said, The Oregonian is a horrifying experience of one girl's path of life or death and the influence her infertility had on that choice.

This film was a treat for me. Previous to watching I read all the interviews I could find with the director and from those I had built a sense of what to expect in terms of how he cared about this film. It is hard to classify it as a genre. I can give two comparisons to other film makers that really made me recall their taste constantly in this film. That would be early Lynch and early Cronenberg. I think that other creative people should adore this movie. The beauty is more in the feel and craftsmanship than the story. The story itself is more of a surreal journey. I look forward to seeing what Calvin Reeder creates for us in the future.