Thank you.

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2000)

This is it. This is what cinema can be in its most beautiful and shining moments. This is the goal, the apex of all film: to weave a story so real you become a character within it. Forget all the blockbusters, the epics, the cinematic tours de force that have come before. This film is a glimpse at what can be when everything about a movie is right. It is beautiful and heartbreaking and terrifying. This is the world we all live in captured in a little black plastic box with videotape spooled inside it. I have never seen a movie like this before. I will never see a movie like this again. It is one of the most beautiful stories I have been witness to. I don't know if this movie will change my life, but that I must admit it might signifies that this movie has touched me as no other. Every performance is perfect, every character is unerringly understandable, and every minute of it passes too quickly. See this movie. If you do not love it, I fear you might have lost the idea of what cinema is really all about.