“For the Plasma” is a delightful oddity, an indie comedy
with sci-fi twists and an indecipherable plot. It’s part Jacques Rivette, part Shane Carruth, and part Wes
Anderson. It might be part Tommy Wiseau too. With deadpan line readings that
seem purposefully affected, it’s a film that plays with our instinct to look
for meaning in imagery, and the baggage we bring to a movie. In fact, that’s
what it’s about someone trying to read images of the natural world as something
greater. She even says, and it could be to us as viewers as much as the character to whom