painful..... long and painful.... boring... long and painful and boring...

Rating: 2/10 (23 September 2001)

First, let me start that i can see an artsy movie and enjoy it... But this is an exercise in pain and suffering... After 60 minutes, i walked up to my VCR and offered it a bribe to play the movie 50% faster. The images are beautiful, kinda like Johny-goes-to-war but-ends-up-in-a-National-Geographic-photoshoot. To sum up my opinion in one line... Mr. Director, it is not necessary to be long, boring and unsufferably pretentious to pass a message accross.... Reading the credits, i saw the script is based on a book. Wow. I'd love to know if it is half as boring as the movie. If yes, has anybody ever gone thru to the last page alive?