Wistfully beautiful, told with deceptive simplicity

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2000)

My first impression of the movie was that it'll be sad. When I finally got around to watching it, I cried my eyes out, and I still cry when I re-watch (I love these off-beat, unconventional tear-jerkers).
The movie isn't an allegory; it's OUR life. It shows how hopeless we all are, reduced to gossip, to trying to feel superior over everyone else, mostly by picking on them. Edward's scissors prevent him from being accepted, and a regular butt for jokes. At one point, poor Edward is trapped with the sex-starved Mrs. Monroe at the beauty parlour.
When you watch it, it's almost impossible not to cry when you see him looking at Kim, the girl he loves but can never have. His puppy-doggish expression of mixed reverence, adoration and hopelessness just breaks your heart.
This movie has a sort of child-like innocence, since everything's new to him. Although he isn't real, you feel with him, for him, and you're in his shoes. How many movies nowadays can do that?