THE BEST OF YOUTH (2003)
(Now for one of my irregular epic-watch days, specifically here on July 4th) A good example of creating your own (unintentional) 4DX experience at home: when Matteo is at his home on New Years Eve and the fireworks are going off, since this is July 4th I am viewing this it happened to be that all the outside neighbors set off their fireworks at the same time. It threw me off and then some to have so much of that going off right outside my windows. ...... anyway...... Usually, when a film - and yes this started life as a mini-series and eventually aired as that but we are in that muddy line between show and film ala Twin Peaks or Fanny and Alexander, so let's just call it a film for now - is as long as this, or even if it is more like three or four hours, there may be (fair or not) an expectation that the filmmakers and cast will deliver somwthing more profound. Call it the DF Wallace Infinite Jest Thing, but there is almost something where your eyes get big and you think "who...
