Re: eyes wide shut

erespess@inil.com
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:59:34 -0400

>But it's the trap that every great director gets into.  He builds and
>builds upon things that aren't strictly >necessary to the plot, and you
>end up with a movie that is forty minutes longer than need be.

you know, though - i got the feeling that it was slaughtered to edit it
down to a r rating from the nc-17 it would've gotten otherwise.  it seemed
to me that the lack of continuity was due to the editing, not to the
director's lack of vision of follow-through.

did anyone else get that sense?

elizabeth