" This film could have got very heady because of its literary antecedents and its interest in language and instead all of that gets submerged in the face of human beings struggling to make sense of their lives and their fidelities and their betrayals . "

“由于影片优秀的文学原型和它对语言的讲究，影片本来会令人有飘飘然的感觉，然而面对影片所表现的人们力求理解生命的意义以及他们的忠诚和他们的背叛，这种感觉便荡然无有了。”