Exotica Exotica is a beguiling mystery by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in which people and their relationships are not what they seem. The film delves deeply into the world of pain and obsession, painting for us a canvas in which the characters and their stories are never static or cold, but organic and contrived. Painfully marred by their fractured lives and fears, What at first appear to be diverse stories of a tormented tax auditor, …showed first 75 words of 1345 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1345 total…eaks inside which gnaws away our sanity. The only way to prevent our destruction is to see ourselves reflected in someone else's life. This is the simple premise of Exotica, a theme which reoccurs persistently throughout the film. Opening sequences in the film seem to be about randomly selected strangers but by the end you see that these people are so tightly intertwined that if you took just one away, their entire world would collapse.