this film deserve no review . it be the bad movie i have never see . i vote with my foot and walk out . the filmmaker have take the foundation of a remarkable story and person and and talent and construct over this foundation a facade which collapse into a putrid dung heap of bourgeois cliché . be this one of those classic example of producer force a rewrite into some cretinous drivel they could at last relate to on their own level . if the filmmaker couldn not handle the truth of this story why do they bother at all . the director should reconsider his present occupation and focus his future employment energy with some police state propaganda ministry where his predilection for the big lie will play with great appreciation . if he bowdlerize his upcoming project about the story of dorian gray to a similar extent a this film i can see clearly the denouement shock . gasp . horror . look at the painting . my god . there . look . it a tiny blackhead on the side of his nose .