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What can I say about the film that others already have? It's darkly tragic, it's grotesque, it's gorgeously filmed and cut together. A strange combination of surreal yet somehow familiar. A twisted fairytale that drags the audience kicking, screaming, and digging it's fingernails into the splintered floorboards of its derelict house of horrors. But also laughing in spots that beautifully break up the hellishnes. Yet withholding until I was tempted to switch the thing off to process what I'd just seen.

I really enjoyed this movie it made me feel things and uncomfortable levels that I have not experienced in a while and that is why appreciated it is beautiful to seed from a little girls eyes and know that this is 100% wrong on every level but she doesn't know that and she's now surrounded by crazy people so it's interesting to see what's happened.I really enjoyed this in a Canra angles. They used to Dutch angles all the time to give you a feeling of uneasiness.Every time everything happy happens, it feels like something horrible. That's gonna happen. I kept having this horror active feeling in my gut it was so an interesting feeling to have when a movie that tried hard possible to be happy and bright and you know looking through the eyes of a little girl.I cannot be sad if this movie is not from you. It is certainly stomach turning for what I experienced when I watch it with my friends, but it is worth seeing to see if you like it and at least to see any very interesting perspective of a movie.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

One of my favorite movies, where the leading actor is a young girl(others are The Fall (2006) and El Laberinto Del Fauno(2006)and El Espiritu de La Colmena(1973) and La cité des enfants perdus (1995)). In portraying childish innocence and escape into imagination as the preferable alternative to reality, as the sanity of adult world fades, Gilliam is a master. This film opened my eyes to Jodelle Ferland, although this movie set a high bar of expectation, which Ferland has yet to crawl over. Give her time- I love her talent. And Bridges dreamy, elusive character of a junkie, leaves room for her to take the lead. Well, the duality of adult world decay and childish hope just keeps me watching and forgetting time. Love it...

The push/pull, the ‘tideland’ between the fantasies of Jeliza-Rose’s mind and the pointlessly cruel, sick reality ultimately ruins the film with Gilliam’s irresponsibility when what is presented suggests the audience would rather side with one or the other. While I myself do not believe films should be produced around demographics the evidence presented in this movie leads me to feel that had it been aimed more towards children it perhaps would have gained a better reputation not just with critics but audiences. The potential for a tonally better movie is there that’s why it’s so annoying. Tideland is a haunting tale of how innocence of youth deals with disturbing reality but the nature of the film’s title meaning; it’s combination of imaginative childlike fantasy and the uncaring, and often unnecessarily disgusting, twisted reality is ultimately its own downfall.

One of my favorite movies. Memorable. It's sick, it's shocking, it's bizarre, disturbing. And I love it. It reminds me of Pan's Labyrinth, but I must say I like this one just a little bit better.

One of Gilliam' best. Beautiful, funny, dark. Most critics, it seems, we're too terrified by the image of a **** man kissing a young girl. It's worth noting that this is not a sexual kiss, it's a peck on the lips like any two children might do while playing. Anyone who interprets that scene as pedophilia needs to take long look at themselves because it's kind of creepy to read that much in to such an innocent scene.