speechless

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 1999)

This film was passed uncut to the local audience and it just blew my mind. I saw the film twice over two consecutive nights and I'm waiting for my friends to go see it a third, a fourth, a fifth....... you get the picture!
What can I say about it that has not already been said and re-said countless times?! Film of the millenium, shakes up your life, ........ well, every word is true and I never thought two hours and twenty minutes can be so sweetly savoured. Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter were awsome and so many points droned on and on by Ed Norton, hit home. Brad Pitt, well, not a fan but I just felt he was acting as himself, can't be too much of a stretch, right? Or is his acting so good that I just assume the character and the actor are one?
So many layers and ways to look at the picture and so many jaw-dropping images: from the highly stylised sex scenes to the rotating shots of the gas cooker before ignition - I was on a constant high as I let my visual senses get assaulted left, right and centre......... Damn! Got to see it one more time!
Is this film a social critique on our consumerism lifestyle? A condemnation of blind random acts of violence? The emasculation of men of this generation? The realisation of the person we would like to be but are not? There are just too many points to be consumed at one sitting, I'm sure........