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It's great, it's beautiful, but above all it feels so real! He captures details like Kubrick. I love it! It's just one great ride through the world of NWR. If you don't like that. Go bake a pancake or wash your car. If you are a sucker for it like I am, enjoy the show :-). Had to wait months till it finally premiered, but it was worth it. True, a lot of the cinematography is what you could expect from NWR, but hey! That's what it makes so great. I think its impressive how he manages to use 'his' colours again and again. In this story it works for me even better! Somebody wrote that the story is shallow. I don't understand or underwrite that. In my opinion it is the message that counts. And that's not shallow in any way. True life shows its gore and unpleasant face...

Absolute great cinema. Superb acting by Hoekstra. I don't know if it is an adaptation of a book. But it feels like a homage to a literary masterpiece. This movie should be mandatory stuff for (male) students. Maybe I'm a bit biased, because I was born and raised in the same area where this movie takes place. Actually raised two decades later, but I 'feel' the movie like I was there. I think this must is be different for an audience abroad. But the theme is universal. I'm not a filmmaker, but I imagine it's very hard to produce this kind of film in the way they did. Finding the balance is key. In my opinion they succeeded. Film keeps you interested until the end. And what an ending... punch in the stomach. Real hard.