Product: The Idiot (4 DVD Set)
Rating: 3.0
Idiot
Apparently one of Dostoyevsky's more obtuse works, the lack of audio in English and VERY POOR SUB-TITLES (some parts are just gibberish, written I think by a Russian who has a basic, working knowledge of English rather than by an English speaker who has a good knowledge of Russian) meant that I found it very heavy going. I think I need to find a good translation of the novel and watch it over again to even get a rough idea of what it is all about.If nothing else the sub-titles to this visually impressive movie lends a great deal of weight to the idea that sub-titles should first be written by a native speaker of the language in which the movie is set and then vetted by a native speaker of the target language.