Seems like I'mn still the only one who doesn't like the film. This probably indicates i should watch it again.
Overall I found it too didactic and preachy, but it could be that i don't share the films ideology. It's true that desires create suffering, but I think that the "aim" (if one could say that) of man in life is not to ignore desires or try to control them too much, but to see them as part of life itself, accept the suffering, and thus turn it into something else. Overcoming suffering in a confrontation that shows suffering as simply the other side of the medal, and as such a construct of our mind. 
But I really should watch the film again more carefully...