Wow

Rating: 10/10 (2 September 2002)

A beautiful, moving film. This is the filmic equivalent of Michaelangelo's David. It's rare that so honest a film will emerge out of the mire of recycled plots, flat one-liners, and improbable happy endings that the fallen giant known as Hollywood tries to spoonfeed us. It's become obvious that few, if any great stories will ever make it past studio executives, famous for siding with the likes of Jon Peters, and John McTiernan(' Carter of Vagina" anyone?) against truly creative souls. Thus we lovers of film must count ourselves lucky that such a stirring piece should be made available for our consumption. I won't try to dispassionately pick it apart for the benefit of readers. You must see this for yourself.