My brain just treated me to a surrealist masterpiece. There were two main “plots”. One was a male and female mulder and scully type crank file detective team tracking down and in turn being hunted by an immortal Argentine elite assassin from the 1300s from an order established by the pope, called La Fiero Eterna. The other was someone in their early 20s trying to navigate a weird hostel/homeless shelter deal and various preposterous abuser dynamics that took place within, including someone stealing their debit card, then reporting the youth to the police, then trying to assault the youth with a gang outside the hostel, then playing the " we don’t call the cops on each other" to try to garner sympathy and deflect among the other residents after a police interrogation made the theft and other antics seem plausible. This part of it was all overheard from the living area while the youth was half asleep and half pretending to be asleep in the sleep area.
Except half the on screen plot time of the first plotline was mulder being tortured by the immortal assassin, specifically his legs were badly injured and he was inside a garage between two trucks breached on dirt parked on a steep angle, a ramp leading down to nowhere that had been filled with dirt. And the assassin kept throwing burning rags and sticks and things from the top of the ramp so they landed under the truck to the left.
Meanwhile, half the on screen plotline of the second plotline was the youth trying to get out of an office that had an incomprehensible architecture. It was brightly lit and futuristic but had airplane style claustrophobia. They got here while trying to replace their debit card, but as they navigated the convoluted elevator system back down to ground floor the debit card kept changing into other objects until it was 20 forks. They tried to explain to the help desk at ground floor, but were thought insane because while they were speaking and hearing english the help desk guy heard french, and the youth was just philosophical about this, while the help desk guy thought they were insane and had them kicked out.
Also you didn’t find out what case mulder and scully were working on until the youth showed up at the end, slightly older, and helped them shoot him before he got away, and scully explained it all to her spontaneously. The youth was incredulous and Scully went on a long spontaneous tirade about how this was unwarranted, because it was just immortality, which is physically lawful and doesn’t violate any fundamental known scientific laws, at which point the youth gave up and also joined the agency.
Most of the movie took place in indoor vehicular liminal spaces like mechanics garages and parking garages, although most had random furniture and filing cabinets, pool tables, covered hot tubs and so forth scattered throughout. The characters always walked commandingly through them anyway like this was normal. The composition of these shots was always off so nothing sensible was centered and items were cutoff by the edges randomly.
The outside shots mostly pertained to the youth plotline and all took place at night or twilight. They were all in parking lots or on city streets or in gas stations.
The crank detectives also worked in a liminal space, where the indoor spaces were all attics, weird dusty hallways with random doors, unfurnished studios, and stuff like that, but implicitly all in one building. And they commuted to and from this space by a series of cherry picker baskets held up by wire that had to be transferred between by precarious pile of stuff transfer.
The final action scene was mulder escaping the pit and shooting the assassin until he tried to run him over, at which point he clung to the underside of the vehicle as it sped off. He got thrown off near a gas station and told the gas station attendant, who noticed this and his mangled body, to shoot the guy when he came back, so he did. The attendant got shot and killed though. But scully showed up and shot the assassin to apparent death. They went back to the headquarters. The assassin showed up again and this is when they last shot him, at which point scully asked if he was really dead, and mulder shrugged indifferently.
After joining, the youth gives a short speech about how she understands and forgives her mother now, who was mentally ill, because living in a world nobody else understands has given her sympathy. It’s the only acknowledgement of the weirdness. Then scully says “he’s back. Should we send the newbie?” And mulder in a wheelchair says naw I got it and starts wheeling himself.