if i watch a movie and do not once look at my watch or clock to see how much long it will be run or when i hope that the last scene wasn not the end of the movie and it get to be pretty good . i be not an movie internalist or cinema dissectionist . i watch movie and if they keep me interested till the end and then they be pretty good because some of the most critically acclaimed film bore me to death ( the english patient and shakespeare in love and atonement and crash . this movie keep me interested and absorbed beginning to end . acting be great and story be absolutely original and flash back technique very affective . there be a bit of citizen kane throw in tho when hoffman trash his apartment after tomei leave him and but i forgive that cause i see it a a homage to and rather than a rip off of and orson .