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This movie barely has anything to do with James Joyce's masterwork "Finnegan's Wake"; but it remains a nice attempt to do the impossible in creating a never-ending experimental movie... a bit like the book, thus. Though hard it may be to figure out a story in this big hump of separate frequencies of a lifetime, I assumed yollto understand it's about an old teacher who died after living a long life in which he and his family and friends were regularly raping hus students on a ritual base; Heaven refuses his entrance in Paradise till he realizes what he did wrong in his life, only for this he needs to review every single action he ever performed, and boy, he did many -including some pervert bedroom stuff involving his wife,his daughter and an ostrich in the kitchen, not even to mention the countless cockroaches in the movie-; then, when he finally discovers his main error in the cycle of existence, the clock draws back in fast pace and we quickly review the principle acts of the movie but in rewind: then our protagonist finds his end in a big sea of nothingness, absolving into the end titles. What is great about this movie is the perverseness of the director; unfortunately I'm a great fan of James Joyce on whose book this film was 'based' but there have been better representation of this great piece of world literature (such as Mary Ellen Bute's).