Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Emotional sledgehammer. Ick.

This could easily be a decent enough movie, except I think one rather serious mistake was made. Jeunet, though I'm not familiar with his previous work, certainly seems to be very good at evoking emotions and imagery. The problem is he does it far too often here. EVERYTHING is emphasized and made to be a highstrung emotional event, no matter what the event or what the emotion. Because of this, the movie ends up like an emotional sledgehammer ("*ANGRY!* *MEAN!* *SAD!* *TRAGIC!* *DRAMATIC!*"), and quickly becomes a real strain to watch, especially since the actors seem to really have to stretch to present the story in this fashion.This *could* have been a very good movie, if a little restraint had been employed. As it is, it takes a lot of effort to watch. (One of my friends is partially autistic, and even he couldn't stomach the sledgehammer.)