Good work- if slightly out of context.

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2000)

I'm not going to write a big review of this one because all of the good stuff I could say has already been said. Thus, let it be known: it was a good movie. However, when I saw it, I didn't like it very much. That fact has everything to do with the script, it was a very artful film. It bothered me a little that it was so bursting full of symbolism and morality that it practically not only spelled out its message but roared it in your face. And its breath was less than rosy. My main problem with this movie, actually my only real problem since European movies get away with ten times the symbolism/morality issue I raised, was that it seemed like it was meant to be on stage rather than film. You can get away with characters that are so stereotyped they may as well have come out of a catalogue on stage because stage is larger than life. But, as negative as this review sounds, I only add it to the rest of the reviews, and I imagine there are many glowing ones, because as many bad qualities as the film had, it was still a wonderful and entertaining piece of cinema.