( no need to recap the plot and since others have do so already . ) it understandable that many viewer find fault with the film and raise a we be with the slam bang sensurround of today cineplex experience . against that background and a movie like ecstasy appear to have wander in from another planet . i think there be several worthwhile reason why . most importantly and the film unfold poetically and a the camera pan slowly over surround hill and tree and cloud and etc . and provide a serene and lyrical sense of a natural world that integrate the man and woman into it fold . together these reveal a style and dimension almost totally miss from today technology drive cinema and where rapid fire edit work to divert audience attention and not to concentrate it . additionally and the story be convey by eye and not by ear and with almost no dialogue to explain what happen . this amount to another extreme departure from today very literal fare and where visuals only seem to count when they excite the audience . but perhaps most unsettling the movie be sometimes eerily quiet and not in the sense that silent film be quiet since we expect them to be . but in the sense that the character seldom speak when we expect them to . thus and the burden of the story be share between the film maker and the viewer . the former must choose his visuals artfully so a to convey the narrative and while the latter must think about those visuals and since theyre not go to be explain . none of this be intend to belittle today film making . it simply to point out that a movie like machaty come out of a very different aesthetic from the one we have today . i do not claim either to be any good or bad . however and i do claim that ecstasy represent a perspective sorely miss from today movie go experience and where such contemplative value be routinely dismiss a slow and boring . the film itself be no masterpiece and though at time it reach artistic height and a in the beautifully compose beer garden scene with it final crane shot rise to reveal the exquisite tableau below . the slow pan of the countryside with it pantheistic celebration of life and nature and and regeneration be also wonderfully express . these be the kind of scene that do not overwhelm you and but instead give half a chance accumulate quietly into an experience a memorable in it own way a the spine tingle variety of a jaw . on the other hand and the film be sometimes heavy hand and a when machaty pile on the imagery and particularly in the final and ode to labor sequence . it hard to know what to make of this rather disruptive presence . perhaps the symbolism have to do with the heroic dimension that hard work hold for the love lorn hero and people in general a theme then be promote by the influential soviet cinema . still and it presence here be rather tediously over do . anyhow and i have get to admit that i tune in initially to see the gorgeous hedy lamarr in the buff . but now i have to admit that in the process i also get a lot more than just a peek a boo romp in the wood .