I will never forget the first time I saw this at the cinema, sometime around April or May of 2007. I was so overwhelmed by the brilliance of the film, and how much it had affected me on a personal level, that I was speechless. When I got home, my wife took one look at me, and said: "It was that good? Wow." She knows I am seldom stunned into silence like that (we saw the film together subsequently). :)