Tour de Force

It aggressively wants you to feel pain, to contemplate death, and to consider that it was made by a monster that feeds on human tears. Your personal beliefs on on the film's subject may put you off, but if you go with it you'll find a tender portrait of friendship that doesn't settle for easy answers. Each character is wonderfully drawn and portrayed, and not all of it is gloom and doom. It's a tear-jerker, no doubt, and although the ending is a bit too drawn out, it's undeniably affe

Points for depicting bike tourism, Rashomon-style friendship group perspectives, moving storyline; negative points for his predictably quirky and unique circle of pals.

good movie