This film is artistic in every dimension. The score is almost hypnotic, and matches the extraordinarily detailed costume and sets used in the film. Because of the brilliance of the script, and the outstanding acting from Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, the film becomes the real world and as you come out of the theatre, you feel cheated almost because you had been made to feel like you lived in this perfect reality when you certainly do not. You stand there waiting for Adam's music to play, and when it doesn't, you have to kick yourself back into ordinary-life mode which contrasts so entirely with the world you had just been in that the transition is painful.