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Overall this film is a compelling look at the power of suspicion and how it can color one's interpretation of events and appearances.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman is excellent as the priest in question. Streep's and Adam's portrayals of catholic nun's feel a bit like caricatures at times but overall are sufficiently believable.

The power of this film is the crevice it places the viewer in between actual proof and mere probability while never resolving all reasonable doubt. Situations can be more complicated than meets the eye when one begins to scratch below the surface. Individuals are more than what isolated deeds may say about them.

Personally I enjoy movies that leave you in a place of uncertainty and wonder .

Simplistic story telling and predictable plot, unrelenting action and violence, a film that is more legend or myth than believable history but all told still compelling to watch. The reason being is the masterful film-making style of director Mel Gibson and cinematographer Dean Semler. Mel decides to give us a slice of life of Mayan culture by telling the gruesome tale of one particular family who lives a life based in the ways of the jungle struggling to survive in the midst of being over run by a brutal urban style tribe who's out to capture slaves and humans to sacrifice to their god to win favor. Stimulates the imagination and transports you do another time if you can stomach the brutality.

Take all the music, everything you've heard, read, seen in documentaries about Bob and throw them in a blender and pull them out and what you get is "I'm not there" And it's a tasty concoction of a movie that comes off like a dream of everything that's publicly known about his life. Perhaps even Bob himself dreaming about the course of his life. The more you do know about what's out there about Bob the more you'll be able to make the connections with the scenes in this beautiful montage about the poet, songwriter, and musician genius of the last 60 plus years. This is a great film about a very complicated artist who could never be pinned down as representing any one ideology or persona although he seemed to imply many. I suppose Dylan will always be the great enigma and this film only helps to perpetuate it, which is part of what makes it so successful but as we all now know there's no success like failure and failure's no success at all.