This is a major dissappointment. I loved the promise and premise. The execution was so abstract and vague that it could have meant almost anything. There was not much to identify with if you were not a boy growing up in the midwest. Even if you were, the well crafted scenes of midwestern family life were hardly the calling card to craft a message of universal truth. I had to go to Wikipedia after seing the movie to get an explanation. I loved 2001 Space Oddessy...which this movie has been compared to...but thought this was a middling muddled waste of time.