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It was almost three years into war with Iraq when the Iranian TV began to air the series, called Ramon Cajal. Watching Santiago's dominant father, dedicating himself to make a physician out of his son was at times quite entertaining.

How the son found his own way and emerged from his father's shadow to become his own man, and yet, always remembered that he is who he is because of his father, how he found the love of his life __ has been skilfully dramatised! I felt joy when he triumphed, wept when he suffered a loss, and mourned when the series came to an end, as good things always do!

If you're looking for an inspiration, it doesn't come any better, personified in the dramatisation of the character of Santiago Ramon y Cajal!

This is quite a bitter-sweet production. If anything, once again it reaffirms that contrary to political correctness, men are the fairer sex! We're just way too weak to drive a wedge between the physical and emotional in our psyche; quite unlike the (far) more fortified, calculating, and manipulative,'gentle sex'! It's a fine cast.

Mick Jagger's eloquent speech is quite impressive! Not being aware of his past musical career, one would never imagine that he's not an actor by profession. On the downside,consciously or subconsciously, his chain-smoking in the movie serves no other purpose besides serving the tobacco industries which find it increasingly difficult to market their destructive products.

Lastly, Olivia Williams is quite a natural as the sexually dissatisfied, unhappy wife, since her role in ghost writer also involved cheating on Pierce Brosnan with Ewan McGregor!