the frustrating thing about a movie like this and with a true potential for greatness and be that it almost enjoy be heavy hand . we speak of allegory and of metaphor . but the truth be and there no get around the fact that there be absolutely no plot or real character . at a certain point and we most know who the people be . even if we never understand where they be go . the sheer pretentiousness wore me down every time i try to grasp a truth in this film . call it beautiful and great and awesome . i just call it cheat . all style and no substance . sure and it a matter of taste . but i would never take a confusing modernist pastiche of symbol and splash over the spiritual clarity of jean cocteau or renoir . but if it work for you and i be all for it . art be a personal thing and i guess .