Formally, the movie plays games. It indulges in period pastiche — foggy film-stock, rudimentary optical effects — and then abruptly ruptures that nostalgia with jarring modernism: jump cuts that expose blank film leader, anachronistic pop songs bleeding under montage, and abrupt fourth-wall addresses that turn the actors into commentators. These techniques complicate the viewer’s complicity: are we laughing with them, at them, or because we are invited to look?