Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
Example: plot : two teen couples go to a church party , drink and then drive .
they get into an accident .
one of the guys dies , but his girlfriend continues to see him in her life , and has nightmares .
what 's the deal ?
watch the movie and " sorta " find out . . .
critique : a mind - fuck movie for the teen generation that touches on a very cool idea , but presents it in a very bad package .
which is what makes this review an even harder one to write , since i generally applaud films which attempt to break the mold , mess with your head and such ( lost highway & memento ) , but there are good and bad ways of making all types of films , and these folks just did n't snag this one correctly
.
they seem to have taken this pretty neat concept , but executed it terribly .
so what are the problems with the movie ?
well , its main problem is that it 's simply too jumbled
.
it starts off " normal " but then downshifts into this " fantasy " world in which you , as an audience member ,
have no idea what 's going on
.
there are dreams , there are characters coming back from the dead , there are others who look like the dead , there are strange apparitions , there are disappearances , there are a looooot of chase scenes , there are tons of weird things that happen , and most of it is simply not explained .
now i personally do n't mind trying to unravel a film every now and then , but when all it does is give me the same clue over and over again , i get kind of fed up after a while , which is this film 's biggest problem .
it 's obviously got this big secret to hide , but it seems to want to hide it completely until its final five minutes .
and do they make things entertaining , thrilling or even engaging , in the meantime ?
not really .
the sad part is that the arrow and i both dig on flicks like this , so we actually figured most of it out by the half - way point , so all of the strangeness after that did start to make a little bit of sense , but it still did n't the make the film all that more entertaining .
i guess the bottom line with movies like this is that you should always make sure that the audience is " into it " even before they are given the secret password to enter your world of understanding .
i mean , showing melissa sagemiller running away from visions for about 20 minutes throughout the movie is just plain lazy ! !
okay , we get it .
. .
there are people chasing her and we do n't know who they are .
do we really need to see it over and over again ?
how about giving us different scenes offering further insight into all of the strangeness going down in the movie ?
apparently , the studio took this film away from its director and chopped it up themselves , and it shows .
there might 've been a pretty decent teen mind - fuck movie in here somewhere , but i guess " the suits " decided that turning it into a music video with little edge , would make more sense .
the actors are pretty good for the most part , although wes bentley just seemed to be playing the exact same character that he did in american beauty , only in a new neighborhood .
but my biggest kudos go out to sagemiller , who holds her own throughout the entire film , and actually has you feeling her character 's unraveling .
overall , the film does n't stick
because it does n't entertain , it 's confusing , it rarely excites and
it feels pretty redundant for most of its runtime , despite a pretty cool ending and explanation to all of the craziness that came before it .
oh ,
and by the way , this is not a horror or teen slasher flick . . .
it 's just packaged to look that way because someone is apparently assuming that the genre is still hot with the kids .
it also wrapped production two years ago and has been sitting on the shelves ever since .
whatever . .
. skip it !
where 's joblo coming from ?
a nightmare of elm street 3 ( 7/10 ) - blair witch 2 ( 7/10 ) - the crow ( 9/10 ) - the crow : salvation ( 4/10 )
- lost highway ( 10/10 ) - memento ( 10/10 ) - the others ( 9/10 ) - stir of echoes ( 8/10 )
Output: N
The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").

New input case for you: some critics , including siskel & ebert , are on the record stating that martin scorsese 's raging bull , the story of boxer jake la motta , is the best film of the ' 80s . since there are still a number of ' 80s films that i have n't seen , i do n't feel qualified to make such a judgment , but i 'll say this without hesitation : raging bull is a great motion picture , and i would be surprised if more than a handful of films released between january 1 , 1980 and december 31 , 1989 come close to its level .
bio - pics often fall into one of two categories : overblown hero- worship or a dry , dull textbook account .
it 's rare that a movie with the moniker " based on the life of ? " comes across as anything more than sporadically energetic and marginally entertaining .
raging bull is the perfect counterexample , and a brilliant argument for film makers to continue to work in this genre .
the picture takes the life of boxer jake la motta , a middleweight icon from the ' 40s and ' 50s , and develops one of the most compelling character studies ever to reach the big screen .
for all 129 minutes , director martin scorsese and actor robert de niro ( in the title role ) have us mesmerized by this individual who is by turns sympathetic , sad , and horrifying .
historically , raging bull is said to be mostly accurately , with the lion 's share of the details culled from la motta 's own autobiography ( which was co - written with joseph carter and peter savage ) .
however , although la motta is credited as the movie 's " consultant , " he was reportedly unhappy with the final result , because it portrays him as nothing short of an uncouth , insensitive lout .
the la motta of the movie is a man of extreme appetites who is driven by base , bestial impulses ?
paranoia , jealousy , and blind rage .
sex and violence are inextricably linked .
the title is apt ?
la motta is a raging bull .
in the ring , he is a terror , not just beating his opponents , but destroying them .
outside of it , he is no less vicious or more easily controlled .
the two people who spar with him on life 's canvas are his wife , vicki ( cathy moriarty ) , and his brother / manager , joey ( joe pesci ) .
these are the two who mean the most to jake , and who , as a result of his inability to trust himself or others , he loses .
he beats vicki mercilessly because he suspects her of infidelity , and , when he inaccurately believes that his brother betrayed him , his lets loose with an explosion of violence .
raging bull opens in 1941 when la motta , an up - and - coming fighter , is battling his way into the upper echelon of the middleweight class .
over the years , he wins several key bouts , including one against his arch - rival , sugar ray robinson ( johnny barnes ) , but his unwillingness to capitulate with the local godfather keeps him from an opportunity to participate in a championship match .
meanwhile , away from the ring , la motta falls in love with 15-year old vicki , who he marries after discarding his shrewish first wife .
vicki becomes jake 's greatest prize ( a wife , in his view , is not a companion , but a possession ) and the source of his most extreme pain .
his own insecurity is so great that he can not accept that a woman as beautiful as vicki could be faithful to him .
hence , he is constantly haunted by a belief that she is sleeping with someone else ?
perhaps even his brother .
( this leads to the famous line parodied in waiting for guffman and elsewhere : " are you f
* * king my wife ? ? ?
" ) in the late ' 40s , la motta gets his first shot at a championship fight , but with one huge condition : he must take a fall .
he does it so badly that an investigation is launched and he is almost thrown out of boxing .
two years later , he wins the championship , only to lose it in a subsequent bout to sugar ray .
by the late ' 50s and early ' 60s , when the film ends , jake has become a pathetic figure ?
a broke , overweight loser who has spent time in jail for corrupting the morals of a minor , has lost his wife and children , and is trying to earn a few bucks by doing a cheap standup routine .
raging bull is the other side of rocky .
sylvester stallone 's tale of boxing triumph was released to great critical acclaim in 1976 .
it won the 1977 best picture oscar , and a sequel arrived in theaters before raging bull went into production .
but , where rocky romanticizes boxing , raging bull takes a cold , unflinching look at the violence both inside and outside of the ring .
while scorsese 's primary aim is to present a riveting deconstruction of la motta the man , he never backs away from showing the seedy , ugly underside of a sport where gambling , greed , and organized crime force fighters to throw matches to continue working .
rocky shows boxing at its noblest ; raging bull shows it at its most diseased .
there 's little i can say here that has n't already said about de niro 's performance .
in a career that has included many fine roles , this is his most outstanding .
the level of intensity de niro brings to la motta is unwavering .
and , although there 's a lot of travis bickle ( de niro 's character in taxi driver ) in la motta , scorsese and de niro go to great lengths to make sure that , if we never fully sympathize with him , at least we understand the forces that drive him .
this is a complete characterization and a perfect example of acting .
as the younger jake , de niro is trim and fit .
as the fat , older man , de niro gained 50 pounds and turned his body into a grotesque parody of its normal form .
how many actors would go that far ?
the best oscar statue is only one testimony to the lasting power of the performance .
cathy moriarty and joe pesci both earned nominations for their supporting work ( although neither won ) .
their portrayals have the same raw energy that infuses
de niro 's .
pesci , who has basically re - created the same personality in two other scorsese films ( goodfellas and casino )
, presents joey as a slightly more intelligent version of his brother .
the misogyny and violence are still there , only better concealed .
but , when joey snaps , as he does in one scene where he pounds on a mobster ( frank vincent ) , it 's startling to behold .
moriarty , on the other hand , must play the temptress with virginal qualities ?
the only kind of woman who would ensnare jake .
later , she 's called upon to portray the battered wife and mother whose love has turned into fear .
scorsese and cinematographer michael chapman elected to shoot the bulk of raging bull in black - and - white ( a few " home movie " segments are in color ) .
the choice is perfect for the movie , giving raging bull a unique look in an era when a black - and - white approach is almost unheard of .
( one important recent exception , schindler 's list , eschewed color for some of the same reasons that raging bull did . )
in black - and - white ( especially considering scorsese 's choice of shots and use of slow motion ) , the violence is stark and disturbing .
there 's no room for romanticism in the ring with inky black blood staining the canvas .
during fight sequences , the director also uses a number of point - of - view shots designed to show the world , however briefly , from la motta 's perspective .
scorsese could have chosen to end the film with la motta 's loss to sugar ray , where he surrendered his middleweight crown .
after that , his career was all downhill .
yet the director allows the film to run for thirty minutes after this pivotal moment , stretching more than a decade into la motta 's future .
the reason is obvious : scorsese is n't as interested in boxing as he is in the character .
following his retirement , la motta is still as violent and volatile as ever , but he has lost the arena in which he can legally unleash those tendencies .
we see the results of this beast let loose on society and how the consequences of his actions reduce him to a parody of his former self .
who can not feel a surge of pity for la motta as he quietly recites marlon brando 's speech from on the waterfront ?
( " i coulda been a contenda . " )
perhaps raging bull is indeed the best film of the ' 80s .
and , if not , it 's certainly perilously close to the zenith .
Output:
P