真夏の夜の夢

Oh, hi there movie I totally forgot about for over 10 years!

No seriously, it was 11 years ago when I wrote about the trailer for this movie and despite having bought it the moment the DVD was released (in fact I remember pre-ordering it) and having watched it, I totally forgot to write about it.

Maybe it was because the story was very difficult to understand given the strange dialect the characters were using, especially the Spirits/Fairies/Gods, or maybe it was because of the ending, which again, like MY SUMMER OF LOVE, it now doesn’t seem nearly as bad as I think I remember it! Nay, it wasn’t bad at all, it just didn’t have the ending we all wanted!

But speaking of that ending, it plays well into the subject of the movie and what one is willing to do or not do for love! The story too is very different from what  I remember, which I guess is because now I understand it better so let’s start from the laydown of that!

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