greatest experimental independent film of all time ?

T yeah you should never read reviews before a movie. Nothing to be worried about. It's a great movie, just pay attention to it because cassavetes never spoon-fed his audience. I liked it the most probably after my second or third viewing because I caught things that I didn't notice in the background or the foreground during my first view.

also I remember a lot of cassavetes movies being on YouTube for free

It didn't.

Found footage already existed before Blair Witch Project. What the movie did was to apply Lars Von Trier's Dogme principles to the genre. It worked so well that since then every found footage movie is almost a Dogme movie. But that was it.

I don’t sleep nights much. My man passed out on me.🤨 I’m bored af!