elshikh4 As a fantasy, it's great. Apart from an original imaginative world, it gives a new supernatural power : The oblivion (forget the thing, anything, and in no time it'll disappear forever), inviting us to forget what we hate. But what if you hated everything and everyone, including yourself ?! Artistically it's fine too. The direction, the music, the cinematography, the acting, the set and oh yes, the CGI, all of that looked terrific. The script has many good lines and situations. It creates so fresh atmosphere, while leading the pace in such a thrilling way. And no doubt it is one unpredictable movie where you're dared to know what is going to happen later. So, where is the problem? I know. It's in that very script. Deeply in the feeling that moves it.Let's see. At first you may think that it's about facing a mega-cruel world, with a real horrific intro by the way. Then, after a while, you may think that it's about hatred, and how forgetting, wise one, can solve a lot, making the peace with one's self on one hand, and one's self with the world on the other hand. But it isn't about this or that. It is simply about friendship. Originally it doesn't focus on the outward world, since the goal is deep down inside the human. It's about the comprehension of the importance of not forgetting the friend, the love. The movie tries to assure that changed yourself or not, in your world or out of it, at any cost you have to have a friend, with arguments and problems, but not hate. Because when you don't have one, then you have nothing. Yet, that freaky ending degrades in a way the cuteness of the mix, saying that moral shockingly !I felt disappointed eventually, simply due to the tragic sense of it; whereas the 2 leads knew the truth about the greatness of "being together" while "admitting the love", and "being honest" however after totally destroying everything and everyone including themselves. So it confirms the constructive power of love, yet adversely; by confirming the devastative power of hate. Yes, we're accustomed to have these sweet meanings about love sweetly from Hollywood, and now this is the nightmarish way for it. But in fact what really disappoints is that while the movie cautions about hatred, it hated its 2 character's dumbness so powerfully !It's one of the best movies ever made about friendship. It mixes pretty well delightful infancy with black comedy, fantasy with psychoanalysis. You just have to know well what it talks about to understand and enjoy it. And be ready for its much hatred to its leads who hated, especially each other, much !

lastliberal Make the World go away. Get it off my shoulder. Say the things you used to say, and make the World go away.Well, Dave (David Hewlett) and Andrew (Andrew Miller) were in a pickle, one for embezzlement, and the other for kissing a child. Neither was guilty, but faced with charges and their house about to be torn down, they ended up in, well, nothing. The whole World, except for their house went away.It is kind of weird, but funny, too. Just what would you do if you were all alone in the world? The two friends just enjoy each other's company, and do what they want. But, that gets old fast, it seems.Then they start to improve their live by hating away memories. The sound effects during this were great.Things really got weird at the end. This film was the product of a great imagination, and written and directed by Vincenzo Natali, with help from the two stars. It just has to be seen.

Homer Simpson I'd give this piece of crap a 0 but I am forced to give it a 1 as it's the lowest permitted. This is a piece of garbage. Worse. A piece of garbage. Worse! All the jerky camera movements made me feel like barfing, not to mention the horrible and ULTRA annoying "acting". The best actor was the damned turtle. The plot? SUCKED! You don't care for the characters. They are retarded. You want them to die. You want this stupid college artsy-fartsy thing to end. You press the "stop" button about 30 minutes in; you at least give it a chance. After returning the rental back to the store you give the clerk an earful and spit on her face. Then you never EVER mention it again; you don't even recommend it to your enemies.

ice ruby red I chanced upon this movie because I had a free non-new release from Blockbuster and needed to grab something quickly, as the store was getting ready to close for the evening. The plain white cover and title intrigued me. I'm a (relatively speaking) "old" lady and my son is a young man of 30. I adore movies that are sheer entertainment, such as The Sixth Sense, Interview With A Vampire, Harry Potter and Beetlejuice. My son, on the other hand, is a film graduate and enjoys very specialized foreign films, such as those directed by Bergman or Hertzog. We generally hate each other's movie choices, HOWEVER, we both watched and LOVED the movie NOTHING! It was unlike any movie we'd ever seen before. We're both cynical/critical personality types and we usually crack on movies while we watch them -- but in this case we just laughed and enjoyed the film from start to finish. It is our opinion that if this movie had been promoted and shown in the main stream theaters in the U.S. it would have done very well indeed.