Wonderful, horrible film.

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2004)

This film shows how low human beings can go in their treatment of each other. It shows how deeply people can care about each other. It's all true and it clutches the heart strings like no other film I think I've ever seen.
This isn't a film where you leave on a massive high like watching superman when you were a kid, wanting to run and jump and shout all the way home. This film is dark. This film's hero starts as a shallow man intent on making money and not caring about how it happened. He is changed into something great and worthy by how he behaves when he becomes aware of the reality of circumstances around him.
Its gritty. It should be compulsory viewing. It's a wonderful film. But it really not going to cheer most people up.