Absolutely beautiful.

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2007)

I noticed that one commenter called the film "pretentious" and "boring," which is what led me to comment myself. Everything about this film was exceptional. No, it is not your run-of-the-mill, commercial, explosion-filled McMovie. It is an actual film. It is meaningful art. If you found it pretentious, that probably has to do with your own ego and that the film's message clashes with your worldview, which is probably the dominant American ideology of consumerism (buy more and you'll be happy, we promise! buying stuff is the meaning of life! buy buy buy!). I almost teared up early on in this move, and even as a full-grown man, who is not "supposed" to cry, I eventually did cry a little. And the main character did *not* have his "arms in the air constantly." It sounds to me like some people just found this film's message disagreeable or simply did not get it (probably a little of both). Of course anyone can nitpick about minor details of the film that may have been improved, but I think they would be missing the forest for the trees.