David Ray Gallagher (rebvodka042099)

Simply grotesque! Boy, is Don Hertzfeldt a freaking, twisted, paranoid genius! The ending is especially tragic - which I absolutely adored!

Samantha Morton's directional debut is as good as she could ever make it. I do hope there is a road ahead of her when it comes to direction, but this one certainly didn't blow me out of the water. When I watch a movie, I don't want it to make me think of the imperfections and the mistakes. I don't want a movie to make me see the direction, nor do I want to think, "ah, this could have been done better". Which is exactly what happened to me in this film. It's a difficult film to watch in terms of the compassion you feel has been deprived of Lucy, an 11-year-old girl who deserves every bit of love everyone around her failed to give her. Morton is a good amateur director in terms of her handling her actors correctly. But the editing was crude, the so-called "deceiving" of the different camera angles was too obvious, and it seemed like the whole movie was shot in one week - and like each scene only had one take. I'd like to see more of Morton in the future, but her first movie wasn't impressive, but rather tried too hard to be.

Without a doubt the best film portraying the change in a man's fascist beliefs. Both Norton and Furlong give breath-taking performances in what is probably one of the darkest, most unfeigned and most astounding movies of the last decades.

L.I.E. successfully merges hidden desires/homosexual ambiguities with the inner will for a getaway from reality. Paul Dano and Brian Cox are marvelous. A true masterpiece that always manages to sneak up on you when you least expect it.