@penguin42 Well, no spoilers from me, but if you look them up, I expect there'll be some "aha" moments.
It still feels like a student/beginner film in a number of ways (I think it was literally an expansion of a film-school project), but it absolutely has a bunch of moments and entire sequences that stand out for being original, interesting, well-executed and such.
Nice ideas unvarnished are far preferable to no ideas with a lot of glitz in my book....