I've had the film at home for some time, but have been putting off seeing it, since it's still showing in some movie theatres here. I really wanted to watch it on a big screen. Tonight I finally got around to seeing it.

I really loved it! It's a beautiful, poetic and creative film. And Cate Blanchett! Where do I start?! She's absolutely magical! I really understand why Heath said that he was blown away by her mere appearance, and that she walks, talks and smells like Dylan in this movie! Through her performance I feel like I do know how Dylan smells now!

When it comes to Heath's performance, I'm not sure I can give you an opinion yet. It was such a mixed experience seeing him up there. But I can say this much: Of all the movies I've seen him in, I feel like this performance comes closest to the person he was in real life. After all it is about handling your fame and trying to combine it with your personal life. Robbie Clark, I believe, becomes much more consumed with his own importance than Heath ever did. To be frank: Robbie is mostly behaving like an a-hole... But I believe that being a sensitive and analytical person, Heath must have sometimes considered what he might turn in to if he allowed himself to get swept away by his own fame. I think he's showing us that person in Robbie.

And then he still manages to incorporate that vulnerability that runs like a red thread through all of his performances: When his marriage fails, and he's watching the pictures of his wife and daughters, his pain seeps through the cracks. And watching that, it's impossible not to think about his real life separation from Michelle, that hadn't happened yet when they shot this.

I believe I will have to watch it again, shortly, to get a more balanced opinion about the whole movie. Seeing it now, I was so focused on the thought about when Heath would appear, and while watching Heath, so focused on the thought about when he would disappear again, and on how many more times I would see him on the screen, to really be able to appreciate the whole film in all its complexity. Because it is a complex film.

But in the end - the sign of whether I really like a film or not was there when I left the movie theatre: The surrealistic feeling of walking around in an environment that is extremely familiar, and still being detached from it, looking at it as if I'm still watching a film. I guess it is a result of being swept away by the world the film I've just seen has been portraying. So much so that it doesn't lose it's grip on me just because the film has ended. When that happens I step back into my every day life when the film is over, and still: I'm not there...