A film debut by Alex Ross Perry is a free adaptation of Gravity’s Rainbow,
a famous novel by Thomas Pynchon. While it qualifies for an absurd comedy,
don’t expect gusts of laughter as its humour is rather refined.
The entire picture takes place in a forest that provides a mysterious
backdrop for the roams of Tyrone, a clumsy soldier of the U.S. Army. The
World War II is over and Tyrone has been assigned with a task to locate and
retrieve two V2 missiles. Tyrone has already found one and now he carries it
while searching for the second one, which is even more important because it
is the prototype with number “00”.
Along the way, Tyrone keeps meeting strange characters such as Lazlo
Impolex, his army buddy – a talking octopus or a mysterious young woman.
They are all characters from his past or perhaps from his future. His journey
through the forest is also a trip through his consciousness.