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Title: impossible to follow
Review: I found the movie impossible to follow for a couple of reasons. The characters come in the beginning in such profusion they are difficult to later identify and many of them tend to look much alike. I read the Wikipedia summary but even that didn't much help. One that does stick in mind is the pretty boy butler played by Ryan Phillippe, but only because he has a fake Scots accent and as usual isn't very good. Another problem is that most talk "sotto voce" so that it is almost impossible to understand what they are saying. If there were subtitles that defect could be overcome but there are only Spanish, not English, subtitles. I contrast this fiasco with another movie about a great English house, Remains of the Day, that is a marvelous movie. I'd give GP a 1 and Remains of the Day a 5. No real comparison.
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