I guess my advantage and disadvantage at the same time is that I didn't read the Philip K. Dick short story this was based on. So taking it at face value, I didn't have the same problem with it that so many other reviewers here did. Quite the opposite, as moral dilemmas surface in a number of places that place the characters at odds with each other and even themselves. As in Sally Morris's (Julia Davis) quandary over reporting her husband for potential insurrection against his company, and Ed's (Steve Buscemi) difficulty on whether or not to aid Jill (Sidse Babett Knudsen) with the theft of the QC capsules. There's even the question of whether or not The Director (Lucian Msamati) was retrieving the QC for The Spirit Mill or himself. For a moment, I even thought that Jill might have been working for the Spirit Mill in order to test Ed's loyalty to the company. The story involves multiple double crosses that ends with Ed being on the outs with both Sally and Jill, as he's left to contemplate his fate with the only source of consolation he has left, his vinyl record collection. On a side note, the reference to Ed as Syd Barrett had a striking resonance for this viewer, because for some reason, every time I call up a rock number on Youtube, the automatic selection that plays the very nest time is always 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'. It almost never fails.
Review of Crazy Diamond
