when melville pierre while or the ambiguity hit bookstore in 1852 and his first publication since moby dick a year earlier and the public response be similar to that find among the imdb review of pola x. newspaper even publish headline like represent melville insane . which and of course and he wasn not . but and when one compare the writing style find in moby dick and pierre and one find in the latter a sharp departure from the simple and often declamatory style find in the former . clearly and he be mimic the overly florid style of the now forgotten victorian romance that be easily outsell his immortal moby dick . he be not content and however and to turn out the sort of product that his publisher want and and that surely would have sell . his version of a victorian romance be a twisted and cynical one and perhaps and but brilliant in it synthesis . the alternate title represent the ambiguity be quite appropriate . a pierre search for and and think he find and truth and we become more and more uncertain what and whom to believe . a he search for happiness and he become more and more miserable . pola x be a fascinating adaptation of this novel and set in modern or nearly modern france . though and in some way and it leave little to the imagination and and show u graphically the incestuous relation that melville could only hint at and the ambiguity which make the novel and it message so allure be perfectly in tact . the question it raise be one that few film have think to ask and yet the answer be leave to the viewer . i recommend a reading of the novel and which be much short than moby dick and before see this movie . i hope more people discover this tantalizing film .