Great Cinematographic value but hard to watch.

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2007)

When I decided to watch this movie all I had seen about it was a short glimpse at the genre and the rating on IMDb. I thought I would be tuning in to another fantasy movie but boy was I wrong.
The movie itself and the story were wonderfully weaved, but it depressed me over a certain degree a usually enjoyable movie should do in my opinion... I have a problem with just "accepting" mortality as a given but that seemed to have been the movie's main point and throughout it I was torn between liking it as a piece of art, full of symbolism or hating it because of the overly dramatic value and forced ideas I do not really agree with and which also make me feel somewhat uncomfortable.
In the end I ended up giving it a 8/10, because of the first but as a warning to anyone expecting to watch this movie as a pure piece of entertainment and without inciting any heavy thinking, just don't... It really is not that kind of a movie.