Being Human (1992) fan edit

In the tragic history of maltreated cinema, there are few example worse than the 1994 film “Being Human” created by Bill Forsyth, the director of “Gregory’s Girl” and “Local Hero”, who wrote a fantastic screenplay about the gentle soul of a simple man’s journey thru the ages, seeking happiness, love, and peace. Unfortunately, the vapid suits at Warner Brothers didn’t understand his vision, and so they forced him to slash over 40 minutes from the film, and to add one of the worst narration tracks ever (by Theresa Russell) in a pathetic attempt to help the audience understand what they felt was an overly confusing storyline that took place in an incoherent timeline. This totally ruined the theatrical print of the film: it’s like having a mentally unbalanced woman sitting next to you in the theatre, talking happily back to the screen, until you want to take your popcorn box and shove it down her throat to shut her up. Forsyth disowned the film, which got universally negative reviews, and with the exception of an unfortunate attempt at a “sequel” to “Gregory’s Girl” in 1999, he has never created another film due to his deep disillusionment. This is a brilliant “fan edit” created by Stephen Dorian Kutos, which removes all of the terrible narration from the soundtrack, bringing the film much closer to Forsyth’s original vision, and it improves the film’s overall quality immeasurably.