watch the die gaul remind me of watch the new age ( michael tolkin and 1994 ) . both share the same facility for false grip that keep the viewer attend to the action while at the same time mentally numb one into a false sense that there be any meaning to the whole thing . perhaps that be the key and refer to the root of the poisonous plant find in the chic ultra fab malibu seaside manse garden which and in the long run ( spoiler begin here ) act a a deus ex machina at the end the movie . when the end do arrive i think and of course and it have to be and what else could possibly have happen to bring this lolloping turkey to a conclusion . the script be a mish mash of buddha or werner erhard philosophical self help and become a bit eye roll at time . have say all that and i enjoy many aspect of the die gaul and not least of which be the performance of patricia clarkson and peter sarsgaard . but and like judy davis and peter weller in the new age and all their great gift of reaction to the word can not mitigate the nebulous quality of the entire project . what be the point . be it another gay rage film and take dark humored revenge on the closet bi sexual marry couple that abound across the landscape and or be robert sandrich ( the screenwriter ) just another serial killer . who know . it be this mysteriousness that several of my friend be intrigue by and spend many hour discuss and reach no conclusion . one of my film buff chum go way out on a wine drive limb about how it be about the reality of cyberspace and all kind of flapdoodle about meld karma in chat room or some such stuff that be posit by the sarsgaard character early in the film . then the conversation veer off into other theory a to what this movie be about . when that happen in a conversation about a film i become immediately suspicious of it basic integrity . in other word and it be pretty much a pile of cow pat . only a really great director can pull off such cinematic enigma while i be thinking of peter weir masterpiece picnic of hang rock . there be think and there be think . the die gaul call up the lesser of the two and amount in the end to cinematic wool gathering and rather like this comment be become and so i would not continue much longer . basically i think this movie be a woman revenge movie that backfire dreadfully . but a all the main character be fairly reprehensible it have no emotional impact at all and it sort of go phut at the end when i think i be suppose to be devasted or something . or perhaps this be part of the black humor bit that i do not get . but i do not see much funniness in the death of child . if the die gaul be someone idea of black humor then i have definitely live too long . this be a bitter and cruel and nasty movie that provoke puzzlement but little follow up interest and at least for me . but worth view for clarkson and sargaard performance and steve reich interesting score .