Why the negative comments?

Rating: 9/10 (3 December 2002)

This is a great movie! And definitely Best Picture material!!! Even by today's standards. The makers concentrated on a mature audience - they developed the ideas and the characters rather than attract no-brained-idiots with cheap sex and toilet related humour (showing a naked rear end in a movie seems to send some people into hysterical fits of laughter), blood and gore, or fancy film techniques. And as someone else commented, you only need a heart to enjoy the movie - something which many people don't seem to have.