Can someone explain...
I don't understand how anyone could regard this film as not being terrible. I don't see how the script being in iambic pentameter is useful or meaningful - it seems to consist of clunky phrasing and embarrassing rhymes. While Joan Allen is usually brilliant, here I felt she brought neither sympathy nor understanding to her role. This may not be her fault as the characterisation was horriffic - she's a scientist, so she has worries about the ethics of her work; she's of irish descent, so she feels she understands about life among terrorism and wars caused by religion; she's american, so she can be used in the script as a participant in the Iraq war - everything that this character could have issues about, she does. Which I guess is the point - the character has been carefully designed so that Sally Potter can fit as many issues into her film as possible. Agh the whole thing was so heavy handed! How often does it need to be emphasised to use that She is white and He is black? Do we really need ethnic style music playing whenever He comes on screen? What was the point of the restaurant orgasm? The argument between them in the carpark existed entirely on cliches! How on earth does the ending make sense? Is it supposed to be that she found God and so gets her reward? And why does he come to her? I thought he was angry because she didn't respect him, so how does it help if he goes following her around like a lap dog? Oh dear God and the cleaners - is that supposed to be a base for the film, is she saying that it's a film of the lowly ones? Nice though the idea of the cleaners being all knowing is, what relevence does it have to any of the points I thought the film was trying to make? Why was there that stupid montage scene near the end, just before He comes to Cuba? Why was Cuba portrayed as paradise? Whhhhhy did the dying aunty take so long? Sam Neill air guitarring - wasn't that cliched and irritating rubbish; middled aged guy, feels a bit depressed, must be playing air guitar endlessly - how does it help to advance our understanding of the character or what's going on in the film. Why did Shirly Henderson keep reappearing after the credits began to roll?
On the offchance anyone has read all the way through that, I apologise for the spelling mistakes and any rubbish I may have said. I would honestly like some help explaining how the film isn't terrible.