Five tips to Anthony Minghella in order to make this a better film.

1. Change the courthouse scene. The way it is now makes you laugh. Which judge or law enforcer would believe such blatant lies? This scene makes a laughing stock of the British law system. (Besides, I don't get it. Why couldn't Will just say: OK, this bloke broke into my office, but I know his mother who mends my clothes and I want to give them both a break?)

2. Change the scene where Amira FIRST gives Will the incriminating photos and THEN begs him to help her son. I mean, which woman in her right mind would do that? Why take the pictures in the first place if you don't use them? Also, her keeping the pictures would add a little suspense to the story.

3. Remove the scene where Liv gets out of the car, kicks it and then embraces Will. This is Hollywood melodrama of the worst kind.

4. Remove Bea's accident on the construction site. It distracts from the conversation with the police persons and doesn't serve any purpose in the story.

5. Cut out all the psychobabble about circles, cages, and dark places within oneself.

The unexpected coming to alter what is already our daily routine. Doing something for one specific purpose without realizing that we are being lead by fate , I presume, to an existential cul-de-sac. This is the stuff that fairy tales are made off, also great drama, great comedy and all the natural ingredients of what is laughingly known as our daily existence. This is Minghella's most moving film to date - and that is saying something. His obsession with darkness hidden in his characters hearts is as universal a theme as unrequited love. Minghella loves his characters and the darker they are, the stronger the love. I didn't love Jude Law this much since Mr. Ripley and Juliette Binoche is heart breaking. Brilliant. I sat in silence after the film was over. Tears running down my face. It hadn't happened to me in many many years.