It’s easy to point to the kinds of movies, literary works, and filmmakers that inspired writer/director/editor Sarah Adina Smith to make the surrealist black comedy Buster’s Mal Heart, but those cultural touchstones are wrapped up nicely in an extraordinary story with shockingly emotional overtones. Films as strange as Buster’s Mal Heart often coast by on weirdness, ambiguity, and artistic merit alone, but Smith and her committed cast and crew have also set out to make a keenly perceptive film about the nature of depression. Sure, sometimes it can feel like watching the Coen Brothers attempting to adapt any number of Chuck Palahniuk works and Old Testament parables simultaneously, but that only attempts to describe the tone, and not the emotions the film represents.