I'd like to see a trimmed down version of this sometime...

2½ hours is just too long for such a film. A lot of scenes went oooon and oooooooooooooooooon for what seemed like an eternity, with no reason as well. It seemd like the director had forgotten to yell out "CUT!", and the editor had forgotten to trim down the clips as well.

If this movie was trimmed down to 1½ hours, it probably would've been a masterpiece. But instead it's just a loooooooooong bore. Most viewers probably fall asleep or leave the theatre before the ending comes... which is also excruciatingly long and slow.

The cabbage-scene is awesome though. That's one of the few scenes that shouldn't be trimmed down... in fact, I had hoped that would've gone on for a bit longer, as it was cut very abruptly for some reason.