we give up at the point where george clooney character have his finger nail extract . we be not squeamish have sit through an hour of this drivel we just know what it felt like . to say this film be incomprehensible and boring and pretentious twaddle would be to over praise it . how do people manage to sit through this confusing and slow and depress pseud corner of a film and let alone nominate it for an oscar . clooney look as ill a we felt watch him . what be he think . oh . and what be with those subtitle . do we just have a dud dvd or be the original film do like that sentence leave hang in mid air . the film be hard enough to follow without that as well . i pity the cast and who obviously do their best with the material available .