Hollywood should take notes

Rating: 9/10 (14 October 2010)

It is during the sickening week that the bland bubble-gum wrapper of a film Social Network is #1 that I watch this masterpiece on DVD and wonder through, WHY are the critics not celebrating films like this? Why are so many fooled by the trivial relevance of Social Network's "I use Facebook, they made Facebook" moronic thinking whereas I almost let a film like this slip through my watch-list? Hero is what films are supposed to be; a balancing act between visual, audio, acting, writing, and editing. A poem of the arts of films. You cannot pick one of these parts and say "that's what made this film". You will not hear talk of the acting vs. the script vs. the music.
This is a seamless balance of the filmmakers' tool kit. Perhaps it is its perfection of balance that fails to "dazzle" the easily amused, as the film hypnotizes in its elegance.
I wish I could say I wish Hollywood made films like this, but I know they never will. So I am simply happy SOMEBODY does and hope reviews like this point people in the right direction and away from box-office opera fad.