Bulk by Ben Wheatley
- Rose L
- Jul 16
- 1 min read
This is film is neural disruption at its finest. Visuals and dialogue move so fast the brain doesn’t have enough time to catch the entire meaning, creating a kind of cognitive conflict that you feel. It disorients and intoxicates, bending perception until reality itself seems fluid. It’s string theory unravelled, dimensional boundaries collapsed, identities in constant flux and a man constantly moving through doors to a new experience, unlocking a puzzle that appears infinite. We witness an elite scientific mind.
We see its destructive capacity as we travel through his worlds. You might meet your doppelganger, but they don’t behave like you, because they’ve lived another life. If you like the feeling your brain is having seismic shifts and that surges of adrenaline that , if you enjoy mind-altering sci-fi visual trips that make you analyse scenes four days later, then you will like this film.
If you like the feeling of having the neural networks in your brain scrambled to the point you feel a state of altered consciousness and complex ideas pulsate, animation reminiscent of Lynch or Tsukamoto move with electric, this is a film you should watch The special effects are simple yet fascinating.
In the modern age of CGI graphics, the most spectacular effects are passee and yet somehow the use of miniature models and basic camera tricks, older than my grandmother, give the film considerable atmosphere There is a complex network of ideas, references and inspirations inside the filmmaker’s head that come to life here.



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