Warning! Stressful kitsch! Avoid this movie!

Rating: 1/10 (13 February 1999)

Don't read this if you love this movie, or sentimental movies in general, as it would only make you angry. No offense intended, I just hate this movie. And it's not because I'm any prototype macho American male or something.
The point is, you don't get to know any of the characters in this film. Yet you have to watch the many tragedies they suffer for a very, very long time.
Why do we see so many suffering people without any message, without any point to their suffering, any reason for it? I already know the world is a hard place to be in, I don't go to a cinema and pay to see someone else make a statement to that effect.
And why do these two characters suddenly start to sleep together? They don't even know each other and we have to believe their love is so strong and deep. It seemed perverse to me. Not that I have anything against sudden bouts of sex or against innocent perversion, but please if you're making a pretentious movie make sure that you don't depict it as True Love.
Conclusion: The images are professional but the film is emotionally very twisted, and the music was disgusting. Vote: a 1. This is the worst kind: pretentious yet unhealthy and manipulative.