solipsistic naive self indulgent adolescent

Rating: 1/10 (22 October 2009)

weenblow's comment is pretty representative of those who found this movie to be concerned with a solipsistic, naive, self indulgent adolescent "I feel like I have been cheated. There was really nothing of much redeeming value to be found in this film. The character development did not help me to sympathize with the main character, he came off as a brash, uninformed idealist with no real intelligence." My summary judgement is that a] the book is about spoiled rich brat in a long line of writers who have the luxury to criticise 'society' from the vantage of privilege b] the movie in representing this is bound to fail Please don't waste your time: it's an example of a 'cult' movie that feeds on its own self importance. Come back Thoreau, Rosseau, Beat Poets et al - all is forgiven. grrrrrrr 1 is too generous; please can IMDb provide a negative number scale as well? If so I'd give this minus 10