One of the absolutely most beautiful movies i have seen in a long time... This movie moves at the speed of life - or that of the main character in the film. Hussein reminds me of Forrest Whitaker in Ghost Dog... aside from the obvious physical similarities they are both men of integrity... they are both reliable purveyors of their intended perspective.
Anyway, this movie does not suffer from gratuitous slowness... Hussein's pace is juxtaposed with that of everyone/everything else in the movie... Saying that this movie is weak because it is too slow is like saying that you hate women because their voices are shrill... GET OVER IT! THIS MOVIE *SHOULD* BE PAINFUL TO WATCH!!! If how and to what degree a movie affects you is a criteria for how "good" it is, then this movie is the lovechild of Barry Bonds and the Pope... ...dig the shot when Hussein enters onto the freeway/gridlock (towards the beginning of the film)...
Anyway, this movie does not suffer from gratuitous slowness... Hussein's pace is juxtaposed with that of everyone/everything else in the movie... Saying that this movie is weak because it is too slow is like saying that you hate women because their voices are shrill... GET OVER IT! THIS MOVIE *SHOULD* BE PAINFUL TO WATCH!!! If how and to what degree a movie affects you is a criteria for how "good" it is, then this movie is the lovechild of Barry Bonds and the Pope... ...dig the shot when Hussein enters onto the freeway/gridlock (towards the beginning of the film)...