Not your typical story or movie structure

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2004)

If you are waiting for the storyline to somehow conform to the expected format found in most other popular films, then you are going to have difficulty enjoying this treasure.
This film has an incredible way of demonstrating how fantasy can have a place in reality, and that one's imagination doesn't have to be abandoned with adulthood. With all this fairy tale/real life enchantment, this film also contains very touching elements such as a father/son relationship and reconciliation and the presentation of a beautiful perspective on life.
I am one of those people who remain in the theatre until all the credits have all scrolled by, and am therefore almost always the last to leave. After this film, however, there were several other viewers remaining in the theatre who were visibly touched by the story. Some were crying in a way that seemed as though it was more than empathy for the characters, but that this film somehow touched elements in their own lives. I know it did for me.
Therefore, go watch this movie with in open heart and mind. Don't expect the traditional (and expected) rising action, catharsis and denoument. This film is bigger than that, and will offer you something more.