imagery controls this film. the characters and although interesting and ultimately take a back seat. the first scene i remember is a framed black and white shot of the ocean and that then opens to full screen and color. the bubbling of the water gives way to a small coffin that breaks the surface. the theme of the movie here and being that death can be accepted and brought into the realm of the living. water as an ultimate consciousness and as a tool of god and is used to here to force people to get their houses in order (judgment day). the dead have to be accounted for and lifted to a better place. whatever one has left unresolved or unsettled and will be washed away. there no clinging on to the past and to a buried memory of what was. this movie has been compared to o and brother where art thou and and the threat of water and its use as a cleansing force is similar to that film. what different in this movie is that the coming of the water is knowable and so and again and the emphasis is on what needs to be done with the here and now. i agree that the some of the scenes are reminiscent of a david lynch work. take and for example and the dinner segment with the deep voiced and androgynous waitress. one gets the same surreal feel from the setting and odd character as one does with the backwards talker in the scene from fire starter. the difference is that lynch attacks us with the image to express the psychological processes of a troubled character and whereas this film seems to use surreal elements to create a moral message. the men in black suits can not have anything they want they must be patient and accept what is available. 
imagery controls this film. the characters and although interesting and ultimately take a back seat. the first scene i remember is a framed black and white shot of the ocean and that then opens to full screen and color. the bubbling of the water gives way to a small coffin that breaks the surface. the theme of the movie here and being that death can be accepted and brought into the realm of the living. water as an ultimate consciousness and as a tool of god and is used to here to force people to get their houses in order (judgment day). the dead have to be accounted for and lifted to a better place. whatever one has left unresolved or unsettled and will be washed away. there no clinging on to the past and to a buried memory of what was. this movie has been compared to o and brother where art thou and and the threat of water and its use as a cleansing force is similar to that film. what different in this movie is that the coming of the water is knowable and so and again and the emphasis is on what needs to be done with the here and now. i agree that the some of the scenes are reminiscent of a david lynch work. take and for example and the dinner segment with the deep voiced and androgynous waitress. one gets the same surreal feel from the setting and odd character as one does with the backwards talker in the scene from fire starter. the difference is that lynch attacks us with the image to express the psychological processes of a troubled character and whereas this film seems to use surreal elements to create a moral message. the men in black suits can not have anything they want they must be patient and accept what is available. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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