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A stunning, crazy, messy and beautifull funny movie...but the plot is crazy and gets ever crazier, so you have to stay on the ball otherwise you are lost in the maze of intreagues and doublecrossings and start thinking about suicide or finding the off-button.

You must undergo the torture of watching it at least 2 times-but who has the courage to do that?

I could hardly muster any sympathy for all those Moscow-folks. They all have a neurotic behaviour and are rather dammaged when their trials and tribulations begin. The 2 main actresses are really hysterical cows and their reactions to certain circumstances are hard to watch-I'd call it overacting. Too much happens too fast to be credible-and the stupidity of the personae is sometimes hard to believe.

Yes, I dare say out loud: I was bored out of my mind and couldn't finish the film. Having read all those enthused reviews with all those desperate attempts to analyze the plot, I am astonished about all that helplessness concerning the meaning of the narrative. The film was tediously stretched out with endless pauses,had no real structure, lacked dramatic development (at least in those 70 minutes I watched it) end even the great Gyllenhaal couldn't save it. If I have to watch the film together with my Psycho-analyst in order to get an satisfying answer to its meaning then it's a lost cause for me.