oscar run vi: gangs of new york (martin scorsese, 2002)

Too long and not long enough, there's extraneous stuff and enough holes to make you wish for more explication. The film leaves you with a fairly important question: what the hell was that all about? I don't mean the history, muddled as it may have been; I don't mean the plot, jagged as it was. I mean, what was the point of the movie? What were we to take from it? I confess I don't have the slightest idea. Six on a scale of ten.