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Lapsis: DVD Review

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Lapsis: DVD Review Quintessentially quirky, with a lo-fi execution and a frustratingly abrupt and unfinished finale, Lapsis is somewhat of an enigma of a film. But it's an enigma worth wrapping yourself in. In a world ruled by Quantum technology, working class deliveryman Ray Tincelli (Imperial, embracing a kind of James Gandolfini mumble and Sam Rockwell chameleonic vibe) is something of a outlier, a technophobe who is willingly refusing to adopt or embrace the new digital age. But when his sick brother needs an expensive hospital treatment for a debilitating illness known as Omnia, Ray finds himself ditching his baggage handling job and embracing a cabling job.  The job requires him to unspool cables around nature and connect to large cubes that inhabit the national parks - but if an electronic machine cabler bests him on his route, he doesn't get paid. So Ray finds himself stuck in a gig economy where the possibility of failure is always knocking at the door... Lapsis sets u...