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BUST

I watched my second portion of 1900 today; the Bertolucci film.

It began to unravel when the guys come home from WWI. Still beautiful. Some great set pieces. But the characters are all 'off'. The story is beginning to be lost in the mass of images. The actual story line is pretty simple but, well, I was losing interest.

It died with Burt Lancaster, the old padroné.

I got done with the first disc and put in the second.

Goddam. It is Disc One mispacked in the Disc Two envelope.

You know how sometimes things build up and then there is a defining moment?

This was a defining moment.

I reported the mislabeling to Netflix but didn't ask that a new order be sent to replace this one.

The invisible hand reached down and said "here, you have had enough of this. I will help you bail out".

This will be a 3 out of Netflix5. Great to look at but way over the top long and I don't like the people.

Ebert didn't like it very much either.