Tripe, tripe, tripe. I resisted seeing the movie when it first came out, primarily because of all the hoopla, and my instincts were correct -- it is in fact, sentimentalized, overstuffed, and superficial. And the reaction to the film is borderline offensive -- had these characters not been gay would we not have simply called the movie exactly that?Ang Lee demonstrates again that he can be great at American period pieces (The Ice Storm of the 1970s). But he misses the mark here in terms of anything else.
2*
2011
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