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No real insight to the creative spirit of the man and she lost interest and went to bed. I don't think that was the intention of the film-makers! Towards the end of the film, I turned to my wife and whispered to her that this film despite its best impulses, actually damns Oscar Wilde as a self indulgent narcissist.

It's not very good because the writer's vision splendid didn't really cut through or know what it sought to portray except to say - "I love Oscar Wilde!" Because in the end, we as passive viewers don't really care about Oscar at all.

It strikes me as the type of film a real enthusiast for Oscar Wilde would make as a homage to the man and then struggle through heaps of revisions and funding cuts and criticism from various studios to get it made and then at the end - prove that the critics were right. Hey, the scenery, the camera work and attention to detail is great. Fails to ignite and in the end feels like a muddled wet blanket excuse for a movie making experience. I wanted to like this film a lot but it fails to excite. "You have rightly chosen," said God, "for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.Sorry to dampen your spirits. "Bring me the two most precious things in the city," said God to one of His Angels and the Angel brought Him the leaden heart and the dead bird. We must throw it away." So they threw it on a dust-heap where the dead Swallow was also lying. "This broken lead heart will not melt in the furnace. "What a strange thing!" said the overseer of the workmen at the foundry.

When I last heard of them they were quarrelling still. "Of myself," said each of the Town Councillors, and they quarrelled. "We must have another statue, of course," he said, "and it shall be a statue of myself." Then they melted the statue in a furnace, and the Mayor held a meeting of the Corporation to decide what was to be done with the metal. "As he is no longer beautiful he is no longer useful," said the Art Professor at the University. “So they pulled down the statue of the Happy Prince.