Nocturnal Animals

I think "Nocturnal Animals", written and directed by Tom Ford (see also "A Single Man"), is a fine film top to bottom, although the opening sequence is a bit jarring and disconnected.  Otherwise "Nocturnal Animals" is a superbly crafted adult drama about real people and their fears, regrets, loves, and ambitions.  The film is a memorable and resonate story because it articulates common experiences in a very personal way.   It uses the full capacity of cinema to tell a visual and emotional story with multiple time frames and multiple story lines.  It mixes facts and fictions - although all of the movie is a 'fiction', inside the logic of this 'fiction' is another fictional world and the two comment and clash.  The overlapping plots are a thoughtful twist on straight line narratives.  I like the demands that a multiple time frame, multiple story line film puts on my intellect.   I want to be challenged by a film.