post-modern fairytale/the acting/spoilers from the get-go

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2004)

Perhaps a justification of it for those making mention of the less-than-spectacular dialogue and acting: yet another 'hint' of their apostasy from contemporary culture -- their uneven efforts at speaking in the vernacular of the period they wish to emulate -- a strange tongue for them, and therefore interspersed with "Thanks" and the such. I don't believe that it was a mere oversight in the scriptwriting. I do believe that this and the robotic/inorganic-seeming delivery was fully intentional. p.s. saw the movie on Sunday, am still digesting it. Saw this one just for the set direction, but was struck much by the social commentary as well. I didn't go for the story, but was exposed by it since I too long for the atmospherics of an earlier time. It's a movie where the messages can still be considered after it is seen.