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The film itself barely has any narrative and many of the film's mysteries will not be revealed until the viewer watches the commentary by the director (referring to the DVD version). Nevertheless, the film is an excellent example of the abstract art cinema. Everything in the film is a symbol, the film plays itself out in symbols and imagery, it is an example of a pure attempt to tell a story without holding the audiences hand in any way. This is international art cinema at it's best, and of course I understand that not everyone will enjoy this film, fortunately this genre does not require the audience to follow along. If you put your heart into watching the film and later watch the commentary to wash away the confusion, I promise, you'll be happy you did so.

I went into this movie unsure what to expect. Of course, I've been waiting for this film to come out for quite a long time. So any vision of the film really was hard for me to come up with.

The first five minutes rolled and I feel in love with Kate Winslet's character. And everything else just fell into place.

The movie gets down well what it's like to be in a relationship, and how relationships fall apart. When they invent this type of surgery in real life i'm sure they'll be plenty of people wanting to get it, and I'm sure it'll cause some great chaos. If stem cell research which actually can save lives and improve the world is getting flack from insane right-winged people, then this type of thing would as well, but it's a great concept and very possible.

The film itself takes on a life of it's own. I'd like to see it again just to absorb it into my skin. I love this film as much as I thought I would. Anyone can love this film. As long as you have a span of attention...see this film. It's well made and well written and true to the heart. If you have no sense of good cinema and just want Britney Spears and MTV to combine again... stay home and cry for yourself.

I just finished watching this movie and I thought it would be best to comment on it while it was fresh within my head. I first saw Todd's work when I saw 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' when I was really young. So I liked that and therefore... decided to go for happiness.

WOW. This movie takes you places you know you want to go but would never venture. Truly unique is this movie and the fact that Jon Lovitz and Phillip Seymour Hoffman are in the same feature, even for a second, make the movie outrageous!

This movie is a trip for one to go on and it's kind of hard to explain. The dialog is incredibly realistic and the problems are realistic but the kind of things people just don't talk about. Todd has this interesting view of the suburbs which I can truly appreciate (having grown up in the suburbs.)



The last 30 minutes of the movie I won't give away. But I will say this, in a scene between a father and his son, and everything after that... watching that just had something SNAP for me. Something about the suburbs just looks different after seeing this, and you'll never think of people's families the same way. After watching that, it was just sooo good and sooo interesting and yet so kinda sad and still funny that your like WOW. It's like I didn't know I had the ability to mix emotions and nostalgia so well and weirdly until now.

Definitely watch this movie. And in the mighty words of FG, "That's all I have to say about that."