Not for Shallow, Thoughtless or Insensitive Individuals...

Rating: 10/10 (15 November 2001)

This is a movie only for individuals who possess layers below their skins where the eyes cannot discern or the hand cannot feel, for individuals who possess layers below their hearts where the soul only reaches and the mind cannot fathom.
I wallowed in the gentle and peaceful pace of this movie. I entered into it's even breath, into it's solemn hope and I came away with more life than I had before.
I can only pity those individuals who cannot sit back for just three hours of their lives and slow down to take in every nuance that this movie has to offer.
We are becoming accustomed to movies which move faster than the clip of a music video. It is remarkable that when offered a movie faster and wilder than a music video, most of the public could not take it. That movie was "Moulin Rouge". It was too fast, they said. Balderdash! It was glorious fast and deliriously wonderful.
Well folks, how fast is too fast and how slow is too slow? Have our minds become so hard as to not embrace the widest range of human experiences and appreciate them all for their own individual worth and their particular message?
Their is room in my psyche to enjoy Meet Joe Black and Moulin Rouge as equal partners in new territories of entertainment.
If you want your entertainment in a bottle and your life in a can, then this will not be your movie. And I regret that, truly.
Pitt, Hopkins, Forlani, Harden, Tambor, Howard and that exquisite Jamaican woman, Lois Kelly-Miller were engaging and brought us a memorable experience. The Brest direction, cinematography, writing and music were equally as absorbing and a pleasure to the senses.
Thank you all for a movie I won't soon forget....and there haven't been many new ones who can take that trophy home.