Terrible Narration

I am a huge fan of Joanne Woodward's, so it isn't about her to me at all. I just don't think a film should rely on narration to convey plot details and the building of characters. It violates the "Show, don't tell" maxim. There are all sorts of ways these ideas could have been conveyed cinematically without a narrator. Narration feels like a cheat to me and it pulls me out of the film.

I'm not a fan of narration, especially when the words unfold in the action of the actors. As for telling the story, I would have opted for romantic. It would contradict the emotions played out, since most had no idea of romance. But maybe it's straightforwardness compliments the conflicted emotions. No one is whom they seem to be.

If we can save humanity, we become the caretakers of the world

To me - the narration set the mood for a lousy movie.

A good movie only needs minimal spoon feeding of plot to the audience. In this movie it was overbearing and annoying.

I also respectfully disagree. Had there been a category for narration, Ms. Woodward would easily have won the Oscar. Her quiet, well-bred delivery was very much on point, even while sharing a private joke with her "guests." I felt as though she was giving me a very much needed and welcomed private tour of another culture -- which it was.

Hated her delivery.