Coma

This is in the main unfocused and undisciplined, and the isolation of each character merely drains the film of oxygen.

Bonello’s experimental approach brings a new level of desperation to this compressed version of reality.

[An] attention-deficit delight...

A heady rush of ideas, the film’s avant-garde mélange of live-action footage, abstract video art, and multiple kinds of animation just barely masks that it’s a rather simple story about a Zoomer’s inner struggle.

It’s a willful jumble of ideas and styles that gives the impression of an anxious mind. While the protagonist may be a teenager, this is a concept many ages could relate to after the past few years

Bonello has essentially created “Doomscrolling: The Motion Picture.”

The filmmaker has described Coma as the third feature in a youth trilogy...and when viewed from that perspective, it gains in stature as part of a larger project involving political activism, generational trauma, and changing times.

“Coma” is a rather chaotic assortment of ideas and images, reality and dreams. And yet, it captures our disjointed world and our free flowing stream of consciousness, including pervasive anxieties and elusive freedom from cultural conditioning.

Bonello's film is a deeply affecting artifact of sorts: a text that is very clearly situated in a certain time, but with an exposed beating heart that's eternal, ripe for analysis, and, in turn, a launchpad for self-reflection.

Bonello’s personal, experimental vision of a teenager in lockdown seems like an underbaked precursor to a far superior work.