Pretentious & boring, with flaky performances.

Rating: 1/10 (13 November 2006)

Sitting through this movie was one of the most difficult ordeals I've had to endure. I couldn't wait to get out of the theatre. I laughed out loud during supposedly emotional/profound scenes. It was all so absurd.
To begin with, the movie has no substance. It has the most bland plot I've experienced. I wouldn't have minded watching a very slow-paced film that deals entirely with one man coming to terms with the death of his beloved. But this movie was plain absurd, with pretentious ramblings by flaky characters who invoke Mayan legends and immortality. Can we just leave the Mayan stuff alone already? I mean, I know Europeans went around killing indigenous people all over the world and their descendants might have quite a bit of guilt associated with it, but please stop fetishizing and romanticizing all these supposedly genuine indigenous tales of creation and death.
Also, what's up with all the New Age crap (again back to the romanticization of "Other" cultures)? Are people really ridiculous enough to buy this clichéd crap for art? The soundtrack, and the repeated, annoying imagery of the protagonist (complete with shaved head and everything, in Lotus position), levitating and contained within some vesicle/floating globulet. God, even someone from grade 4 could be challenged to come up with more imaginative and creative stuff. What a bunch of fluff. The fact that audiences might appreciate this film scares me. I want to feel that people are more demanding than that.
I felt there wasn't a single genuine moment in this film. I was never able to identify with any component of the film, let alone the characters. Now, I am not by any means a film snob - I enjoy a huge range of films of several varieties. The genre is dear to me - funny films, romance films, slow films, action films, artfully done films, experimental films, etc. But I can't stress enough that this film is terrible in its conception and execution.