The world of the film presents a bleak reality, but one with its moral compass firmly in place. It opens with a grim scene defined by illness, followed by a gory entrant who is covered in blood from head to toe. 

The layers are peeled gradually, employing a movement between past and present which finally reveals how this father-son duo found themselves located in this circumstance. The film builds its world with utmost care and attention to detail. The narrative ropes in ideas of right and wrong, and standing up for what you believe in. However these boundaries might not always be neatly defined and sometimes the cost of pursuing justice can be a little too high, underlines the film. 

The storytelling exhibits vision and deep potential which leaves the door open for more endeavors that should definitely be explored and shared in the future. There is a slight loosening of finesse in the overall production value, but one which is easy to overlook in the face of the world-building and narratorial progression already presented in the form of the end result.

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The film is about a woman's complete absorption in the superhero universe, leading her to aspire to possess the same superpowers as the characters she reads about in her graphic novels or watches on television. What begins as a fun hobby to indulge in with a friend soon takes the form of an obsession of humungous magnitude, setting in motion irreversible events. The narrative has vision and the intention to engage with the intricacies of the human mind. It also wants to converse with desires that might one day achieve a size that forces them out of all conceivable boundaries of rationality. However, the execution shows a want of fine-tuning. Overall, the film aspires to be an entertaining, involving and intriguing story that weaves in elements of psychology, violence, crime and a woman's attempts to stop at nothing to realise the wishes she has decided to fulfil, irrespective of the consequences.

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