yep. that movie left me a bitter taste connected with the assumption of some to judge, and even worse, sentence others in the name of their own beliefs.
ok, the one movie i can think of now that has left me with some afterthoughts is the village.
apart from the fact that i am somewhat of an adrien brody fan, joaquin phoenix and the girl in the lead role (can't remember her name now) also had great performances.
i've been left thinking of how tabus are constructed, passed on and reinforced when questioned in tight communities; of how an outside threat, whether real or imaginary, creates cohesion within a group and shifts attention from inside problems - these questions are mere signs of professional deformation for me
. there are others, deeper and more meaningful: thoughts of the lengths some people go to escape the ghosts of their own past; of how human nature surfaces in primary instincts like love, curiosity, posessiveness, a certain murderous instinct - always; of how sooner or later any good intention is tainted by the need to inforce one's vision upon others, by matter of deceit, if necessary; of how far one's right to lead people allows them to intrude upon their free will... and others as such. a somehow bubbly elogy of the power of love has somehow gone under on me, under the weight of these questions.
and then, another interesting aspect of human behaviour is concentrated in something that, for me, was the most memorable phrase of the movie: "sometimes we don't do things we want to do so that others won't know we want to do them"