i went into this film thinking i wasn not going to like it and but hoping to be surprised and but this and much like the film and ended up being bleak and hopeless. but do not get me wrong and minghella delivers every bit of a grand epic and for those who enjoy that kind of experience and are willing to take that adventure and accept what comes as just that and then they will not be disappointed and it will be one of the better films of the year in their opinion. the acting is of a high quality and will most likely come away with a trinity of oscar noms for law and kidman and zellweger and even though portman few scenes may be the most powerful in the film. the locations are beautiful and minghella has an eye for a good shot. however and for those like me who want the director to take them on the adventure instead of going willingly may come away disappointed mainly due to minghella and his adaptation. the film is so utterly bleak it makes for what i consider to be a punching bag epic which is a film that that tries to hit hard with emotion but does so to such an extreme and so often that during the film i do not have the time to emotionally invest and or hadn not recovered from a previous blow and and it became unrealistic and consequently too difficult to really care and not to mention predictable. overall the cold mountain almost left me too drained to even think back on the good aspects of the film and as all i remember is death and which may have been an original motif but ends up being the focus instead of the characters. 
i went into this film thinking i wasn not going to like it and but hoping to be surprised and but this and much like the film and ended up being bleak and hopeless. but do not get me wrong and minghella delivers every bit of a grand epic and for those who enjoy that kind of experience and are willing to take that adventure and accept what comes as just that and then they will not be disappointed and it will be one of the better films of the year in their opinion. the acting is of a high quality and will most likely come away with a trinity of oscar noms for law and kidman and zellweger and even though portman few scenes may be the most powerful in the film. the locations are beautiful and minghella has an eye for a good shot. however and for those like me who want the director to take them on the adventure instead of going willingly may come away disappointed mainly due to minghella and his adaptation. the film is so utterly bleak it makes for what i consider to be a punching bag epic which is a film that that tries to hit hard with emotion but does so to such an extreme and so often that during the film i do not have the time to emotionally invest and or hadn not recovered from a previous blow and and it became unrealistic and consequently too difficult to really care and not to mention predictable. overall the cold mountain almost left me too drained to even think back on the good aspects of the film and as all i remember is death and which may have been an original motif but ends up being the focus instead of the characters. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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