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I watched it and yes, it is beautiful, although I suppose the piano soundtrack adds another level of profundity to it. I appreciate that he's shown the industry that it's possible to make a mainstream film that's both popular and intelligent. He's the perfect answer to someone like Michael Bay. But I sometimes wonder if his penchant for mind-scrambling complexity and moody seriousness really represents any genuine depth. In that sense he reminds me a bit of Nic Roeg, whose films always suggest something really profound going on beneath the surface but the deeper I look the less I actually find. Or what I do find I think could've been said so much more straightforwardly. If we're comparing him with Spielberg, let's see him make a totally stripped down film like Duel, that offers absolutely nothing to hide behind. I'm not sure he can. But honestly, if you see something in him that I don't, then maybe it's just me who's missing it.
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