Movie was marketed wrong..

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 2004)

I have seen this film and I did enjoy it, I can understand the criticisms from other viewers. This movie was not like his other productions and was wrongly marketed as a thriller. This is another commercial ploy of big production companies, I doubt the director had much power to change their direction.
The movie itself is a twist on Grimm's fairy tales, if anyone is aware of the original Grimm's tales since most have been bastardized by Disney, all of which center around the idea that going into the woods alone would lead to death at the hands of a multitude of ghouls, trolls, criminals or witches. They were used to teach children that strangers were bad and any life outside the village walls was evil. That is exactly what this movie was using as a backdrop for the love story between the two lead characters.
Now, I am aware of the need for today's viewers to be bombarded with quick cut seeings and shock music to feel they got their eight bucks worth, we are all victims of slasher films, hard core action flicks, and worst of all a high sense of cynicism. Fairy tales are just not enough for most us anymore, we're all too jaded from reality to fall for them. So with that in mind I say that the only problems with this movie are the following: A) it was marketed wrong, which I have to say p****d me off a little, and B)the story had to stand on a single premise, which in most cases is not strong enough to support an hour and a half.
Okay, enough of my babble. If you haven't seen it, wait till DVD release and go in with an open mind.