Not so Original

Rating: 2/10 (13 March 2004)

A good first try by a first time writer. I would not say this an Oscar worthy piece. We have all seen much more original debuts. I got the feeling that I was watching the work of someone straight out of a writing class. Scene after scene of buildings and people doing everyday things was hard to keep focused on. For anyone that has traveled abroad, we find the differences in another culture curious and sometimes humorous and for any one that travels frequently boredom sometimes leads you to explore. But every scene seemed so cliché and the questions about marriage typical of the media. Nothing original. I wonder what the academy's criteria are?