Taps into the source of mythic success

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2001)

The success of myth is that it taps a deep yearning for getting beyond the status quo and accessing that which is transcendent. While I've read debates about the script and the action, I think as an independent work of art the film succeeds in this mythic sense. It has real compassion for all the characters, and a sense of their universal humanity that might have easily been missed.