This film is overflowing with very thoughtful camera work, meandering dialogue, sequences that ask for you to pretty much meditate on symbols, and is so certain of the charm of its own characters that it'll just watch them interact for long stretches. If you love that kind of thing, George Washington has a lot to offer. This movie is torture for the more literal types. Someone watching this movie for a murder story will find 90% of the film a gratuitous waste.
The film is a symbolic universe all its own, like a distinctive David Lynch reality where everything looks kinda like our world, but isn't (the FBI has agents chasing spirits.) In George Washington kids speak with the voices of adults, adults seem curiously childlike, even garbage is beautiful, everything is permanently summer, and someone morphs from a dragon to a super hero.
The film is a symbolic universe all its own, like a distinctive David Lynch reality where everything looks kinda like our world, but isn't (the FBI has agents chasing spirits.) In George Washington kids speak with the voices of adults, adults seem curiously childlike, even garbage is beautiful, everything is permanently summer, and someone morphs from a dragon to a super hero.