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Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Danusha_Goska Save Send Delete Simon Abkarian made a huge impression in "Ararat," Atom Egoyan's 2002 film about the Armenian genocide. Abkarian played Armenian painter Arshile Gorky. Gorky had lived an incredibly hard life; he was a survivor of the Armenian genocide. His mother was not. She starved to death. Simon Abkarian's performance as Gorky was supernatural. He channeled Gorky. His scenes felt as if conveyed from a miracle camera dispatched, across restrictions of time and space, to Gorky's studio. The power and impact of Abkarian's performance was all the more amazing because, iirc, he never spoke. I resolved to see Abkarian in any other movies I could find. I was eager to see "Yes." Alas, "Yes" just doesn't work. The iambic pentameter and rhyming doesn't sound like Shakespeare; when it sounds like any other literature, it sounds like Dr. Seuss. Sometimes it just sounds like an incomprehensible series of syllables that, the listener expects, are condemning the West and encouraging us all to just get along. In addition to the stilted and unnatural dialogue, the film includes many Dutch angles, and characters address the camera. In short, this film really doesn't want you to experience any willing suspension of disbelief. It wants you to sit, spine straight, on needles and pins, aware at every moment that you are having an important, experimental, cultural experience, and that Sally Potter is behind that camera.The two main characters – never named – never take on any life. This is remarkable given the fine talents Sally Potter has lured into this science experiment. Joan Allen is always sincere and lovable. Abkarian comes off less well, perhaps because he is given the goofier role. Given how utterly stereotypical and lifeless the main characters are, it's hard to know how seriously Potter wants them to be taken. Joan Allen plays a beautiful, icy, blonde, super wealthy woman who lives a loveless marriage in a monochrome apartment. Abkarian is a passionate Ethnic Other, dark, hairy, "a doctor in my own country, a waiter in yours" and always ready for luuuuv. He dances and recites poetry. At least Potter doesn't have him say, "Come with me to the Casbah," or sing "Sheikh of Araby." The film can't tell the small story of two people who may or may not be in love; it doesn't get anywhere near saying anything deep or new or heartfelt or important or even vaguely true about the bigger issues it wants to address: terrorism, East-West relations, Rich-Poor relations, or stem cell research.

Marcelino Plaza I found the trip to Cuba unconnected with the rest of the film, not pertinent to what has come before and not congruent with the characters, their idiosyncrasies or backgrounds. The Cuban trip stems out of background reminiscences during the dying aunt sequence and, to me at least, is completely uncalled for. First world (the "she" character certainly qualifies as such, at least) traveling to Cuba seems apt to happen out of just plain tourism or out of revolution-inspired soul searching (hardly the case in the family background of the "she" character), the reasons behind "she"'s trip are inconclusive and unconnected, as I said, with everything that has come before save for the dying aunt's reflections.Unless someone caught a different reason in the plot I overlooked ...

haltaylorlawyer A lovely and challenging film, wonderfully acted. Complex people leading complex lives and wondering what it all means. Past experiences intrude and haunt present relationships. Lovers caress the present, yet are conflicted by their historic obligations to others and to the values they carry into the relationship. But this is a movie in which you understand the electric attraction of these two characters, who should never have even spoken, let alone found each others. And--I think this is simply an amazing bit of craftsmanship in this day of overblown special effects--words of love and conflict are spoken in iambic pentameter so seamlessly that the viewer barely is aware of it. Not many films are so successfully erotic and political at the same time. It is a gem.

Ghost-Cat If I can not find the rhyme - fine, if I can not find the rhythm - hit me!It's been a while since I have cried watching movie. And by the end I sobbed like a child who has been told that Santa is not real. Of course, I'm lying just a bit, men do not cry in movies. It takes a woman to bring tears to man's eyes. Yet, I admit, the movie touched me deeply. I have been known to write a verse or two. And timing was suspiciously perfect, I just was looking for the answer, hoping 'Yes' could be the word I'll hear from the Goddess. God answered instead. He did not sound 3.14ssed but neither He was pleased with my quest. At least He was amused, you can bet on that. Let us return back to the movie. Some people, I guess, those who did not expect to hear a lengthy poem, might get upset after an overdose of verse. I pity them but only for a moment, it's all I've got for them, the rest is for my Goddess...I meant the time, my darling, not the pity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the time. OK, I'm sorry, little domestic troubles. I gotta go now. See it for yourselves. And hear too)))Bye-bye,Ghost Cat