Oh, if only more filmmakers displayed this kind of innovation and ingenuity!
This movie follows a couple very interesting days in the lives of some ticket agents, the people who check and make sure you have a ticket on an honour-system subway.
It's all underground, and some great scenes are found there. The soundtrack rocks quite hard and is very fitting. The story is really something else, and the characters are fantastic.
Our hero is the leader of the scruffiest band of Kontroll agents (these are the ticket checkers I mentioned), who are given the worst leg of the subway system to monitor. Everyone hates them, some passengers actually attack them, even their boss hates them. Until they see a crew cleaning up the mess from a "jumper" (someone who jumps in front of a subway train) they think they have the worst job there is.
As the film progresses we learn a bit more about our hero, who has a definite past he's hiding from, and about these jumpers, who might be victims of a subway serial killer.
There are some great scenes, like an underground rave, complete with DJ and flashing colourful lights. The best thing about this movie might be that the questions are never concretely answered, but lots of information is given so that you can imagine what the answers are. Everyone is likely to get a different idea of exactly what's going on, and you can't really say that there are any definite right answers. Your imagination completes the film, and whatever you can imagine is possibly better than what the director can imagine, so this film is possibly even better than the director made it.
Simply marvelous.