bad filmmaking choices

I'm watching Snow Falling on Cedars. I really like the film, but I intensely dislike the colour manipulation. Why do directors get these "clever" ideas?  I really want to watch the same film, but with normal colours. I won't say this ruins the film for me, but it comes close. It's distracting, unpleasant, and clumsy. Bad choice, filmmaker.

It's really noticeably bad because I just watched, before this, Toast, which I thought was excellent and highly entertaining. It also used colour manipulation, but much more sublty, much more effectively. It didn't overuse it like a child banging on a drum monotonously.

The colour manipulation isn't the only bad choice in Snow...: there are several totally unnecessary sex scenes. Anyone who knows me knows I love sex :-) but these are distracting, have nothing to do with the plot, and don't advance the story or add information. There's also a lot of rapid, disorienting shot-cutting that is probably meant to communicate something but mostly just makes one's head ache. There are crescendo-chanting choirs accompanied by rumbling bass drums and vaunting horms. There's repetitive and reverb-filled flashbacks. There's multiple audio lines running across each other.

This could have been a really excellent film. As it is, it's OK, but it's disappointing,