Kinds of Kindness is a triptych of parables about humans who subscribe to berserk systems of belief that order their sense of reality. . . and what happens when the order becomes disordered.

The first words heard in this new movie are the opening of Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams”, which shadow how Kinds of Kindness‘s coterie of characters try to make sense of their reality, especially the second stanza:

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody’s looking for something

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

I’m a zealot for beguiling art like Kinds of Kindness, because making sense of its topsy-turviness haunts me in a similar fashion to how making sense of life’s topsy-turvy disorder haunts me (and haunts Kinds of Kindness‘s coterie of characters).

Does Yorgos Lanthimos — The Creator of Kinds of Kindness — have a grand design that we can deduce? Or is the grand design intended to have no legible design, driving we here in the audience crazy in our need for takeaway meanings from an anarchic universe.

And even though some parables love to impart clear messages, throughout history, Kinds of Kindness’ brand of religious/spiritual parables tend to reflect the inscrutability of finding meaning in life’s potentially pointless chaos.