deep

Rating: Null/10 (9 February 2003)

With this, "Traffic" and "Ocean's Eleven" we can finally say: here is a director creating a complete canon of films. The philosophical depths absolutely tickle the spinal cord when poor little Erin... well, those of you who've seen it know what I mean. There is such a Dickensian flavor to this, as if you'd ripped those poor wretches right out of nineteenth century England and plopped them down in the polluted hardscrabble of corporate USA. And, as with that master storyteller of the last empire, Mr. Soderbergh gives the rich detail, layering pattern upon pattern, until we finally come face to face with greed, avarice, and profit. Yet, this film lifts the spirits, giving us a new understanding of what heroism and altruism are all about in Social Deconstructionist America.