boring, boring, boring

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2001)

I don't quite understand why some people make such a big deal about The Piano, because I don't think it's a good movie at all (understatement of the year). Everything about this movie breathes out the pretentiousness of arty-farty director Campion: the so-called deep story-line, the so obvious symbolism that irritated the hell out of me, for one, the over-acting of all the actors,... If it wasn't that I'm principally against it, I'd surely fallen asleep watching it. Only once did I awake out of the daze I was slowly getting in, namely during the scene in which gorgeous Holly Hunter showed it all. But, of course, that being the only memorable moment of the movie, says it all, I suppose