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A lot of people are talking about the movie American Hustle being one of the top ten movies of 2013. The trailers would lead you to believe that this movie is some grand heist, something like an Oceans 11 and a Goodfellas combined. Do not be fooled.

American Hustle was a long drawn out movie about people who like to claim to be monogamous, but who are in fact all morally corrupt. That's the heart of the movie. The whole sub-story about catching some corrupt congressmen, that plays such a minor role. It's a movie about shitty people.

Maybe they have a great advertising campaign, but be assured that this movie is definitely NOT a classic. The movie had so much potential. It was just such a disappointment.

This new movie should use another name besides 'The Kreutzer Sonata.' It may be based on the novella by Leo Tolstoy but it is nothing like it. I just read the novella and it was so much more powerful, and emotional. The real Kreutzer Sonata was raw. And it is sad what it has been turned into. The original was real, depicting the true faces of reality. And above all it was used as a tool to spread a philosophy and a message of Tolstoy's which is nowhere to be found in the contemporary defacement of the old classic.

In the original the basic story is about lust, and the problems of the structured institutionalized world we live in. Tolstoy's main points revolve around the idea of marriage and its lost meaning. He also speaks at length about the purpose of sex, of sexual pleasure, and the purpose of life and procreation... ..much of which can not and will not be understood by many.