Read everything everybody says about this atrocity and then read Roger Ebert's review. He get's it right. Next chance I get to teach an Intro. To Film class or Beginning Filmmaking, I'm showing this film as a perfect example of everything done wrong. People are reaching for a purpose for the stupid directing and photographic choices made in this film. There's no clever, tongue-in-cheek attitude. They couldn't even clean-up the sound in this film! It takes itself too seriously and ties itself into little knots trying to fool (unsuccessfully) the audience. I suggest all filmmakers see this movie but I urge you to do it in a way that would feed as little money into this film as possible.