cute ending

Rating: 7/10 (24 May 2001)

Upon being bombarded with descriptions of "greatest movie ever" and "if you plan on dying tomorrow, see this movie today," I was somewhat dissapointed with the ending. I expected something profound, what I got was something trite and cute. By cute, I mean it has a great outward appearance, but after that...
Perhaps I've been hanging out with too many far-leftists, but the messages like, "the best things in life are free," and "you can't buy happiness" are so ordinary and commonsensical that you wonder why an entire movie would be based upon them. Maybe the modern or not so modern materialist would feel a euphoric epiphany and call this movie a great, but not I.

Besides that, there were other aspects of this movie to make it atleast worthwhile, or even good. Though it did move rather slowly, the characters were usually entertaining and the dialogue interesting. Moreso, the camera work was extraordinary and revolutionary, for its time. So you're constantly saying, "This isn't great, but for its time..."
I'm not sure if I'm glad I saw this. Seems to be I only saw it so that I could say I saw it. Perhaps viewing this movie as a relative great and historical curiosity would be a better perspective to take and make the experience more enjoyable.