I don't think there's anywhere I could disagree with you in what you said, Emi!!!

I absolutely loved this film. From the acting to the storyline and just the visuals...I think the most amazing scene in the whole film is once they arrive to Lista's house and have to walk through the path through a huge field of thousands of sunflowers!!! That was just spectacular!!! They even planted all those sunflowers just for the film, so it was on purpose!!! I think they did a great job at pulling off them not actually being able to film in the Ukraine and that Prague was a very good location choice!!

Now onto the film...
I found that hilarious too, Emi, that Alex's dogs name is Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.!! It was amusing how his grandfather called him his "seeing eye bitch" when actually he wasn't blind, but whether it was he thought he was or something, can't remember exactly why! The car scenes were just great, especially the first few since Jonathan was terrified of it, then by the end of the film it was sleeping on his lap or something!! I have seen that deleted scene, it's gotta be one of the funniest I've ever seen!!! OMG!! Especially Elijah in the get-up...wig and huge sideburns...it kills me!!

I don't really remember the second scene you speak about, Emi!!! I might be thinking of the same one, where they show all the dead soilders on the ground...that one section is terribly upsetting!! I found it difficult to watch at times!!

I love the scene when Alex, his grandfather and Jonathan arrive at that house and sit at the table and they're all hungry and talking about what to eat and the lady comes in and they're all saying what they want and Jonathan doesn't understand and he asks if there's anything vegetarian and Alex looks at him and asks what he means by that and Jonathan says that he doesn't eat meat. So Alex tells his grandfather and LOOKS (kinda like this) at Jonathan and starts talking a lot in Ukrainian to Alex then Alex starts naming all these different meats and Jonathan says no to all of them and says something along the lines of "I don't eat any kind of meat just vegetables". So Alex tells his grandfather and orders something for him. The funniest part is when the lady comes back with their food and Alex and his grandfather have this plate full of sausages and potatoes and the lady plops down Jonathan's plate and it's this HUGE lone potato!! I don't even think it was cooked.

I find all the parts where Jonathan collects things so incredibly amusing because it's SO random for people to see. The weirdest one was taking his grandmother's? teeth!! LOL Oh man...

The ending of the movie is so touching!!! I swear I cried a few times!!

Overall, the movie was fantastic!!! It's just not one I can sit down and watch at anytime...I've got to be in a certain kind of mood to watch it!! I love how initially Liev Schreiber took the story and told it!! I haven't read the book, but I've heard it was pretty close to the original minus a few things!! Eugene Hutz who played Alex...he's really not an actor, which I love!!! He's in the group "Gogol Bordello", which like I've mentioned elsewhere was in the film, at the train station, the band is chasing after Jonathan!!! The girl with the drum is Elijah's girlfriend... Elijah was, like you said, Emi, exceptional in the movie!!! He did a fab job at portraying Jonathan!!! I've ALWAYS loved him as an actor!!!

That's it for now...