Like Roger Ebert, I hated this film. It howlingly fails as entertainment and its real mission, to explain basic human-psychology, is adolescently-approached.
The filmmaker presents simple concepts with insulting repetition and explication; the movie doesn't respect the audience while trying strenuously to "educate" it. The condescension is pervasive.
A real intellectual film wouldn't have been so overt. Ironically, the filmmaker's own anxiety about the reception of his work is a prime illustration of the psychological blindness the movie wants to criticize.
The filmmaker presents simple concepts with insulting repetition and explication; the movie doesn't respect the audience while trying strenuously to "educate" it. The condescension is pervasive.
A real intellectual film wouldn't have been so overt. Ironically, the filmmaker's own anxiety about the reception of his work is a prime illustration of the psychological blindness the movie wants to criticize.