I loved it all about this movie. The romanticism of such a well written story, the storyteller, the costumes, Tim Roth’s impeccable performance and, of course, Ennio Morricone’s music.
But what I loved most, was the psychological quality of the frightening dilemma in this story. The endless possibilities when having to choose! How to manage that? This reminded me of a TED talk, “The Paradox of Choice, Why More Is Less” by Barry Schwartz in which he explains why choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
“Take piano: keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You’re infinite… And on those keys, the music that you can make… is infinite. I like that. That I can live by…”