i watch this because my wife want to see it and the synopsis on the back of the dvd case make it sound interest . to be honest and if i hadn not read that synopsis i wouldn not have have a clue what the story be suppose to be about even then i do not think it be about self discovery a the synopsis claim . i do not find tilda swinton at all convincing a a man . yes she look vaguely androgynous but her voice give her away a obviously female . there also the small matter of her be almost the only male character in the elizabethan scene who isn not sport a beard . i find the pace of the film to be dreadfully slow . there seem to be endless long shot of people walk towards or away from the camera . i eventually reach the conclusion that these be to show off the wonderful cinematography ( and some excellent foley artist work ) rather than to advance what there be in the way of plot . the first half of the film probably devote more time to nothing much happen than it do to dialogue . not a film that i will be watch again .