"Letamren 2: When Rebellion Becomes Performance Art"

David Anderson returns with Letamren 2, the fever-dream sequel that thrusts us deeper into the chaotic, neon-lit trenches of the mind. If Letamren was a battle cry, then Letamren 2 is a war dance—wilder, louder, and unrelentingly defiant. This avant-garde odyssey takes the fight against conversion therapy beyond the physical realm, arming its characters with imagination, irreverence, and a refusal to play by their oppressors’ rules.

Adam Harris, the film’s fiery nucleus, leads a new group of resistance fighters who turn their mental battlefield into a circus of rebellion. In a world where their voices are silenced and their bodies controlled, they fight back the only way they can—through dance, surrealist absurdity, and sheer, unfiltered chaos. But while the antics escalate, so does the weight of their struggle. No matter how many pirouettes they spin in the faces of their so-called counselors, the crushing reality of spiritual abuse looms like a shadow, creeping in with devastating consequences.

Visually, Letamren 2 doubles down on its commitment to disorient and hypnotize. Anderson channels Mulholland Dr.-esque dream logic, splattering the screen with eerie, unpredictable imagery—crosses loom like prison bars, the rainbow road stretches into infinity, and bursts of color rupture through the black-and-white despair.

But does Letamren 2 always know where it’s going? Not necessarily. The film’s visual experimentation can feel overwhelming, and its message occasionally drowns in its own artistic ambition. The production design, while inventive, lacks polish, and some sequences repeat themselves without evolving. Yet, is this repetition not reflective of the relentless nature of spiritual abuse itself? Is the film’s rough, unfiltered quality not a mirror to the very chaos it seeks to expose? Perhaps Anderson is asking us to sit in the discomfort, to wrestle with the noise, to lose ourselves in the madness just as his characters do.

Love it or be baffled by it, one thing is certain—Anderson is a filmmaker unafraid to push the boundaries, and this sequel proves that he’s only getting started.