Having experienced a somewhat similar encounter before, I could relate to just about everything I watched in the movie.

Rating: 8/10 (5 April 2004)

Having experienced a somewhat similar encounter before, I could relate to just about everything I watched in the movie. Having said that, I don't know if it would have opened up to me the way it did if I have never traveled or resided in a foreign country before. However, I suspect that minus the personal intimacy, the movie would still have been a wonderful commentary on life, stripped of any pretension, full of visual nuances and every bit the great movie anyone mature enough claims it to be.
Rather than being "boring", it kept me awake the entire night, thinking about the past, the things that might have been, and the things we still have a chance to discover and rediscover.
This movie is not so much a story or a simple statement. It is an entire emotion, a real fantasy that is very achievable, but sadly, missed in the unthinking rush of living today.