The Pigeon Egg Strategy (1998)
Comedy • 1h 28m
Complexity theory finally finds a voice in the movie industry.Each time I saw this movie, I discovered something new. Questions about time, space, synchronicity, and culinary innovations weave through stories held together by a group of existential gangsters.The question of time: The movie is in black and white, setting a sense of timelessness. The story develops in a non-chronological fashion, but not through flash-backs. Cleverly done, the movie challenges the linearity of time.The question of space: Like the writer, the movie's characters have moved through different countries: Brazil, Hong Kong, Germany. Somehow, they have always been connected - even if as simply as by a piece of German ham.It is an intellectual and philosophical treat!
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English
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1 nomination
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Hong Kong
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