Seeking strong inspiration for its story-telling technique from Akira Kurosawa’s Oscar nominated Rashomon, how one wishes Via Darjeeling should have even derived the story from the original. For the uninitiated, Rashomon is a Japanese tale about a mysterious murder recalled from four differing points of view. Which version is true is left for the audience to decide with the open ending that it opts for. But are we audiences open to the idea of open endings?

On paper, the Via Darjeeling guys had a pretty neat idea. Literature and cinema have played with the idea of the unreliable narrator for ages, fooling us and then making us applaud how well we've been fooled. Agatha Christie's masterful The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd is a superlative example, as is the Denzel Washington movie, Fallen.