Stop and smell the roses

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2000)

I go to movies for one purpose: to be entertained. These days that is a rare treat. But to walk out of a movie not only thoroughly entertained but absorbed in a post-viewing cerebral haze is even more unlikely. I don't even remember the drive home because I was so caught up in reflecting on my life as a result of this picture. What an eye-opener! The message to me, albeit cliche, through the symbolic display of Lester's rose-laced fantasies was "live your life but stop and smell the roses".