Strange and beautiful

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2003)

I have to admit, when I first saw this movie I did not like it. At all. I thought that it was immensely boring and not at all funny. I couldn't understand why it had recieved so much praise and all those Oscars! It wasn't until about the third or forth viewing that I actually started to like it. A lot.
While I find the music boring and very annoying at times, everything else about this film is fantastic. The repetitive use of roses is such a pretty touch - forgive me for sounding girlie, but it captures the essence of beauty that the film is deliberately pointing at. I really like the 'repeating' of single shots - the bit where Lester is imagining Angela dancing for him during the cheerleading scene and she looks over her shoulder at him.
After seeing this film about 6 or 7 times now, I can fully understand the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars now - it's an original, strange and yet beautiful film that I think everyone should watch at least twice. Once just to see it for the first time, and twice to capture all the beauty of it.