I'm thoroughly dismayed

Rating: 2/10 (4 November 1999)

Nothing in this movie touched me. I couldn't believe what an inept piece of filmmaking it was. No clear story was told. Too many stories were attempted. It all added up to nothing.The worst part is that it has an air of being arty, of being hot stuff, even as nearly every scene misses the mark in some way. It seems everyone was fooled by this gloss, and missed how empty and without weight everything was. The screenwriter obviously lacks deep life experience.
So now I have to figure out why nearly everyone is giving this movie highest praise. Perhaps because they lack deep life experience, and need some first steps of being woken up. Well there are much better ways to get insights into the depth and beauty of life than from filmmakers who know little about art and how to present it.
I'm disgusted with Hollywood after seeing this. Yet I'm faced with disbelief at how the reaction to this movie testifies what threadbare lives Americans are living. If this movie earns any Academy Awards, the joke will be on us Americans.