First, no one wrote this. Someone consulted Bartlett's book of Famous Quotations, then converted them into generic cliches and strung them together to make "dialog".And there is nothing wrong with talking head pictures (my dinner with Andre) but said dialog is now combined with basic camera work to make for an incredibly boring first half of the movie.And the plot is so familiar you can "guess" the secret almost at the beginning.I think the scene designer is owed a lot of kudos because the look and colors are imaginative.