if todd haynes intention be to lull u to sleep with the shallowness and closemindeness and already well documented more of the fifty he succeed . i for one can take only so much beautiful scenery before i start to get irritate from the lack of a real story and unstaged acting . from all the hype of this film and hearing that todd haynes be a genius i really be expect a lot more than a animated norman rockwell painting . really and todd and you have a great future a a designer or landscape architect and but please no more movie like this . nolie from south africa say it much well in his or her review a few day back exquisite to look at but more than a little flat and stolid affected version of pleasantville for the faux hollywood cineast crowd and people in love with themselves as much a the film maker be in love with their product i grow up in the fifty and their be more real drama go on in my neighborhood and in the life of my family and my neighbor in a single afternoon than in the entirety of this film .