The Greatest Film Ever Made

Rating: 3/10 (20 January 2006)

I just saw this movie and it is probably the greatest film of all time. If you are an intellectual, like me, you will particularly enjoy this film. So many people like action films like "The Island" and "Batman" but I don't. Morons like action -- bang bang boom boom -- as opposed to real cinema. This is real cinema: thoughtful and charming and subtle and moving. If you like "bang bang boom boom," then you should just stay away. Because in appreciating pure cinema there really is no middle ground: either you are an intellectual or a moron. People can't have different tastes, enjoy some non-Hollywood films and foreign films but also like some blockbusters; I mean, that just doesn't happen. What I'm trying to say is that if you are of inferior intellect, you might think this film is boring and pretentious, the cinematic equivalent of Tylenol PM. But I didn't; I could've sat in the theater all day, taking in showing after showing. Actually, that sounds like a good idea: I'm going to quit my job and just stay in my local theater all day long, watching this thing again and again.
It was that wonderful.