drown_like_its_1999's Reviews > Blurry

A Russian nesting doll of narratives that center around personal identity and how one's self perception shifts due to their environment and interactions with others. A man needs to get a shirt for his brothers wedding which causes him to meet an associate at a clothing store who mistakes him for someone related to an ex of hers who she left after meeting a figure model that worked for an art professor who was having an affair with another teacher who once had a memorable interaction with an author whose friend had a formative realization discussing work with a film executive... and these nested stories unwind as each character's learned experience informs the next person up and conclude in the inciting wedding where a large representation of the cast meet due to their indirect connections.

This slice of life had a compelling structure that skillfully interweaves the mundane, absurd, serendipitous, and insightful. That being said, I still found the work a bit overlong and thematically inconsequential (even if overarching theme isn't the point). The end result is something I'd highly recommend to those interested in a meandering slice of life ala *Sunday* by Schrauwen, with a focus on the peculiar thought patterns and idiosyncrasies that make people tick. It isn't quite as humorous as that title but makes up for it with it's novel storytelling mechanism and wider cast of characters. I did find the art less structurally interesting than Shaw's panelless work *Discipline* but Blurry had some creative and abstract compositions, albeit a bit more sparsely than I would like.