Good film

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2002)

This is a subversively humorous film, and I guess some people take themselves too seriously nowadays. They can't admit to themselves that they may not be living well, or understanding things properly.
In their rush to judge, many people miss the poignance of certain moments, or the clever way they set up the conflicts that people's preconceptions get them into.
I found many moments in this movie to be quite funny, and so did the audience I was sitting with. There were some patches of long silence, but there were a number of good scenes to make up for that, and many of those scenes were very original, especially compared with the humor out of most movies out there.
I think it's important to note that while other movies have humor in them, this is one of those few that seems to have a SENSE of humor there, a consistent pattern of expectations played with. Evidence that the people who made the movie, even if they didn't make The English Patient, took some pride in making the movie.
Isn't that what we want from filmmakers?