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Title: A focus on pain, with painful music
Review: The acting's pretty good in places -- but that's all.The surest sign of what you're in for in this kind of Hollywood Spectacle is the music -- driving you to believe something important is happening, when nothing is happening. Even the music goes nowhere -- it starts with portent and ends with portent -- the typically lightweight range and depth of a self-important 'modern' idiot like Philip Glass.Anyway, that's just the most irritating thing about a movie that says nothing about death because it says nothing about life -- except symbolically in an oft-repeated story about 'a particular morning on the beach'. We're supposed to feel "what a bunch of trapped people -- maybe we're all trapped -- but maybe there's hope". I know this because the point is made at the beginning and is remade dozens of times -- focusing on the same pain endlessly, in a flat movie where nothing will unfold but your cerebellum.
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