To summarize, it is ridiculous to say its a masterpiece, its NOT

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2008)

Well, the title of this post says all that I want to say.
See some great movies made during Neorealist age. Well this is a problem with American movies. Some of these movies are great but then with so much hype and propaganda these movies are unnecessarily touted as the "epics" or "masterpieces" or anything humongous: larger than the frame. The problem is those people who write these things or say those things, they have hardly any understanding of world cinema- the whole spectrum of movies about "anti-establishment", about "loneliness" that this movie will falter on those grounds.
I am NOT saying that this is a bad movie, this is a pretty good movie, BUT see a lot others (which are non-American in origin) and then draw a conclusion.
Its everywhere in this country that if something a bit better and unusual comes out, people immediately claim it a master "in the world cinema".
Now, I know many of you will dismiss this as an anti-American sentiment, many will dismiss because I am not discussing why I think so, and I DO NOT care to answer because the onus is your part to UNDERSTAND why there are many excellent and even better movies that this movie tries to portray.