The answer to that is "No", because Ian Hislop chose this film as one of his all-time hated things on TV's "Room 101". I just loathed the pretentious, upper-middle class types (who'd paradoxically love this film) and their glutinous love affair. And that teacher with the Down's Syndrome boy....Yeeuuch!!
sharewow, Steve, don't you know your therapist misses you...
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Steve disappeared off IMDB in 2014 - I'm just watching the scene when she sees her husband who she thought she'd lost. If you can't be moved by this then there is no hope.
Sadly I can't tell Steve this or his therapist :(
What's wrong with being upper middle class? What a snob. Take a chill pill and stop being envious of other people. It's unproductive.
This is a beautiful movie. It's a very life-affirming movie. It makes me cry and it makes me laugh. The characters are wonderful.
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I also agree, it is a very good film.
shareI'm far from "upper middle class" but I still loved this film. Your objections to it seem not fueled by the film itself, but by your own personal demons and insecurities. Have you considered getting help for those?
shareThe film had a brilliant idea and little good acting in it.. But I really didn't like what they did with a lot of scenes.. I find it had bad directing and quite bad acting by most of the actors. I expected more, to be honest. I still think that the idea and what they were saying is great, it's just the execution didn't live up to it in my view.
Silence is Real Dance. My dance is all motion without. All silence within.
'I just loathed the pretentious, upper-middle class types'
Which class would you prefer them to be?
If this film would have focused on middle-lower class types or even lower-upper class people then I dare say the pretension would have been very different indeed.
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Yes.
shareForget "upper middle class". It's just "middle class". Without a middle class we have just upper class and lower class, and without a large and prosperous middle class we have no stability, no confidence, and no future. That is what we are seeing in the USA in 2012. The people who made this film could indulge in a love story because they did not expect their lives to be nasty, brutish, and short. It is a beautiful film because life can be full of beauty and love, unless we have too many axes to grind.
shareWho in this film is "upper-middle class"? Nina struggles to get by, working as a translator in a shabby office. She can't take care of her flat because she hasn't the money to pay for it. And Jamie, a cello player, is there any indication he was upper-middle class? Anyone working in social services certainly isn't upper-middle class, and neither are illegal immigrants struggling for a meagre living waiting on tables. So who else is there? Are all the ghosts upper-middle class (in your opinion).
Your comment makes no sense so either you are talking about a different film or you are a troll. Goodbye.