is the office of Clay's psychiatrist (Sab Sahiono), with framed Rorschach tests on the walls.

And there are various parking garages and other public spaces, all seen in light and shadow, all trying to underline the notion of black and white.

It's a promising approach, but the movie undermines it with self-consciousness. The co-directors, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, have a design school background, and are apparently more concerned with how the movie looks than how it plays. That is an approach that sometimes yields benefits, as in such Peter Greenaway films as "The Draughtsman's Contract," but Greenaway is able to evoke an aura of mystery, the notion that something is happening beneath the surface.

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