Here we have one of those movies that, while brilliant and a blast to watch, eludes anything even resembling a simple, straightforward description. How about this for an attempt: A highly surreal comedy about the meaning of our existence.

Or: An environmental activist visits a detective agency (word of which spreads through a unique form of viral marketing) and hires them to investigate a series of strange coincidences that have happened in his life, but the investigation ends up going far deeper than he or anyone else around him had imagined.

Or: A modern allegory for the complementary opposition of the yin and the yang.

Or: What happens when you put a pair of young anti-petrol-culture idealists at a dinner table with a conservative Christian suburbanite family who are housing a Sudanese refugee as part of their charity work.

Or: How genuine movements are co-opted and then undermined by the powerful interests that oppose them.

Or: How a model who sold her voice to act as a mouthpiece for corporate deception discovers her true identity as a bonnet-wearing philosopher.

Or: How much "Us" and "Them" are so very alike when you peel away the layers, and look at the reality beneath.

Yeah, I dug this film. Excellent performances by top-notch actors. A plot that never became stale or predictable, and always kept me wondering what would happen next. Tight and focused, yet also very stream-of-consciousness. Films like this make me remember why I love the cinema.