Usually studies of faces, objects, machines or abstractions carry a sense of heightening montage. In this case the filmmaker, preferring dramatic effects to anecdotes, is preoccupied less with situating the action in time and space than producing malleable visual material and the aesthetics of montage. The space created in the film presents a neutral architecture, utilitarian and mechanistic, where the protagonists ponder the torrid universe which has been created in their image.
