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It is a pity, this could be very good, it is very well made, very well acted, very well shot, story line could be interesting too. I started to watch it with high expectations, i love some of the films of Jane Campion, loved the movie An Angel At My Table, Holy Smoke, The Piano (watched it in the cinema), but after seeing 2 episodes, i got an unpleasant feeling about it. Mostly it has to do with the very stereotype role plays, it goes so far that it feels very far away from reality. All the males in the serial are without exception complete idiots, bastards, behave like complete retards. I never have been in New Zealand or Australia, so i cannot tell how those societies look like, how the people are over there. Unfortunately the way the characters are created, it makes it impossible to watch for me. For me it feels like a pamphlet against the male in general, it is so blunt, so without subtle (like i was used from other movies made by Jane Campion), which just shows a very grim idea about humanity. Of course there are many idiots walking around, they probably are a majority, but when you fall in the trap to show only this side , it is just a great shame. Of course this is only an idea i have, on my account, but a good work never will be such a strong pamphlet against something, it would be much more interested when it would be a pamphlet to favor something. When i look at this serial i feel the anger even rage against the male population and that makes it not watchable for me, a great opportunity missed. I hope this great director will find back her subtle, her great way of telling stories and i will happy to view/review them.

I really love the movies, but i had to leave this movie before it was finished. It's only the 2nd time i did that. How does Mr. Scorsese dare to use images of a concentration camp in his movie like this? In a way for shock effect? It's indecent and immoral. The film hangs to each other by cinematographic cliché's; dripping water, people who are casted because they look so scary, it looked like a cheap horror movie. Also the story it selves feels like one big cliché, full with unbelievable turns. Also the score was irritating me from the beginning, too much present, while there was no occasion for it. I hoped for a well made film, sound, like Scorsese should be able to make, but it was one big disappointment. Yesterday i saw Crazy Love, the contrasts between these 2 movies couldn't be bigger. I hope next time: better time!

I was really disappointed by this movie. Uninteresting conversations which had the intentions to deal about big things in life, but in fact came over to me very cheap. Also the images looked very cheap. It all looked like some extended commercial for the car Norah Jones and Jude Law. I hardly could see it out. The characters were not worked out, didn't convince me in any way. They even irritated me by the lines they were trying to get out of their mouths. Besides that the movie was very predictable, with the climax: a real "Hollywood ending". Also the music started to irritate me: starting up the same song for three times in a movie! For me there were a few positive points in the movie, some shots looked very nice, also cliché shots, but working: the traffic lights in the night wobbling in the wind on their lines, the shots of the metro, quite nice.