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Created Mar 14, 2008 09:45AM PST • Edited Mar 14, 2008 09:45AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Perfect 5.0

   Both visually and soulfully, this film is gorgeous.
   It’s a journey into the mind of a man trapped in his paralyzed body who refuses despair and soars on the wings of memory and imagination.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   Point of view is important in pulling the viewer into this film. The actors are engaging and beautiful. Most memorable are the women who recite the french alphabet in a lovely sing-song cadence. What could be agonizing, is instead liberating

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

8. Male Costars Great 4.0

10. Film

    Perfect 5.0

    Like a nightmare, an odyssey, and wingless flight, this is the strongest area of the film. The director, Julien Schnabel, is a well known and successful american visual artist, and he weaves images like a collage of despair and hope.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

12. Play Perfect 5.0

13. Music Perfect 5.0

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 2.7

    It is an assault on your senses from the start, and the scene of the eye-lid being sewn shut remains painful to this day.

17. Sex Erotic 3.1

18. Violence Gentle 1.0

19. Rudeness Nasty 3.9

21. Reality

    Surreal 2.8

    Like inhabiting another man’s mind.

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.8

23. Biological Surreal 2.8

24. Physical Surreal 2.8