Slightly disappointed...

Rating: 7/10 (27 February 2008)

Well, two of my best friends thought it to be a masterpiece! Also, a teacher in the university recommended it. Well... well... a masterpiece it was not! That's for sure. Interesting? Definitely. Well made? Absolutely. A masterpiece? Certainly not.
I think the symbols in the movie were the most interesting thing about it. Water and drowning represent the dialectic between passion, life and death. I also liked the fact that it turned out the whole movie was a novel; so almost everything about it was fiction!
So, 'where's the problem', you'd ask. Simply put: It was too 'american-hollywood' stuff. Something that's meant to win an Oscar -in the end, it didn't, but I'm sure the intention of the producers was the golden statue. In my opinion, the way the director presented the old writer in the end, was the worst possible. She simply tells us everything! No ambivalence, no art, no symbols! What a waste, my God!
Anyway, to summarize: It could have been a lot better. The way it is, it's just good. Nothing more, nothing less.