Very well executed

Strong and Moving!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

I think it is a pretty good movie. It is a little bit strange but different from other movies and interesting in my opinion. Also, there is deep thinking ...we see how change the life of people when they starting to look every day for last day in their life... they start to appreciate the moments and we see that people afraid to go after their dreams until J. Po appears to give sense to them :) So, it was a good movie with messages in it, you will not regret to watch it at least once.So, I voted 8.

This was a strange little movie that got poor reviews and normally wouldn't have been something that would have interested me....but I liked it. It had one basic message: committing suicide is not the answer. Can't argue with that!Strange characters abound in this dark comedy-drama as Christian Slater passes through a small town of curious inhabitants. I liked his narration and many of the characters in here.The only thing I didn't like was yet another cheap shot at a minister (how many times have I seen this?). In this film, the minister tells his congregation he doesn't believe in God. Then the filmmakers make him out to be a great guy that we all like. The atheists in Hollywood just never cease in their anti-God propaganda.Too bad, because the rest of the film is very likable and I enjoyed it, including the cinematography. Since this was a "one-joke story," they were smart enough to keep this short at 80 minutes.

I've only seen this movie once, so my interpretation might be a little off, but it seemed to me to be an allegory of the price of fame, how famous people, in American popular culture in particular, are often driven to suicide. Of course there are a few holes in my theory: Julian never sought fame himself, but the relentless media attention (the group of children who followed him around), the riches and free stuff he received, and the boredom of a small town (representing America in general) has nothing better to do than make a celebrity out of an ordinary person. And finally, the callousness of the people when they drive him to suicide sums up the allegory.Forgive my interpretation if it's wrong... but those were just my ideas.

Poetic, tragic, pathetic, funny, and romantic do not do this movie justice. A great and subtle piece of film-making with great performances and a splendid and unobtrusive soundtrack. There are no easy answers. There is no Hollywood ending.... See this movie!