The conversations are in Farsi, which suggests were somewhere on the outskirts of Tehran.
The fact that one of the students is dressed as Groucho Marx signals were not in Kansas anymore.
The siblings come across a dollar bill of unfamiliar denomination frozen in a patch of ice.
Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi and a man dressed as a Christmas tree in ‘Universal Language.‘Oscilloscope
A grown-up has also noticed the currency.
Go get an axe from a shopkeeper, he tells them.
Ill confirm no one else gets to it first.
You dont believe his intentions are pure.
Neither, for that matter, do the girls.
Call his surreal style Mountie Python, or simply imagine fellow Manitoba native Guy Maddin huffing higher-grade glue.
You get the idea.
The lullaby that the man sings to his birds is undeniably silly.
Its also surprisingly moving.
