Just Watched the Dir's Cut

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2007)

Just experienced another journey with this fascinating piece of work but with this version I found it much more 'contained' and 'linear' and not nearly as provoking as the cinema release. The conclusions, ideas and thoughts of the cinema release were not as 'set' as they are in The Dir's cut, which --when watching it this evening/morning-- made it 'easier' to follow and 'see what was' THUS affecting its purpose which is --surely-- to provoke? With the original cut you have so much more room to 'imagine' and go places that you may well otherwise have not ; nonetheless, beautiful. All done for love.
Plus: Opening track in the original is Echo and the Bunny Men, Killing Moon, a much more captivating way to start the film IMHO.