I liked it...

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I had to watch the film a couple of times before I really got the "vibe" of Dutch's obsession. I really admire Ford's performance, I just think there was a little something missing from the script.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I felt kind of stupid for not realizing his obsession from the start. While watching for the first time though, I kept asking myself, "Why". Why did he keep pestering her. Why did he keep looking. Why did he care so much. Why...Why...WHY?! Harrison brought out emotions through this film that I've never seen before in other movies I have watched. Maybe it was just the way he acts (which is wonderful in pretty much everything) or maybe it was something else. Anyway, by the end of the movie, I thought about it and for the next few days I watched some of my favorite parts from it and one of them happens to be when they're at the cabin on the lake. Suddenly seeing him looking at her when they were bed made me realize the look on his face. He seemed relaxed, but he also had that questionable look on his face. He was still asking himself 'why, why, why'. Again, maybe I just saw that, but the point is I saw it then. The more she talked and talked to him, he just laid there. He reacted to her kiss and then that was it. He was there...but his mind was somewhere else. And then of course the following day when they were at the lake and he was doing fine, just talking to her and then suddenly he started to ask her 'what if' and he started to break down and that's another part where I realized how hard he still was taking it. And then the hotel room scene to finish it off...when he just went kind of nuts. When he grabbed her purse and turned it upside down and everything fell out and splattered all over the counter, that's when I said, "This dude is out of his mind with obsession...".

Of course not to paint him like he was a nut case, because he wasn't. At least he came across as loving his wife completely even after finding out what she was doing to him behind his back. KST kind of just...didn't care. She found out her now dead husband had been cheating on her and she was alright with that. She kind of shrugged it off. In all fairness there was nothing for her to do about it since he was dead, but I don't know...maybe something more. I did admire her emotional strength at times.

I liked it though. Not the best Ford movie, but it had it's moments and it kept me interested. It was the first Ford movie I've seen since he did the remake of Sabrina that I actually remember a lot about. A good enough movie to get me back into the swing of things with Harrison. I also like KST, she's the same actress from The English Patient, which I thought was a VERY LONG, but good movie.

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I am surprised that so much bad has been said about this movie. I found it very poignant and extremely romantic. The ending was sad since they were not able to continue their love affair. Movies like that always leave me with great sadness. I think they had feelings which went beyond their mutual grief and had the situation been different, perhaps they could have continued. The circumstances were different than one usually meets in a romance but the end was a classical theme of renouncing love out of a sense of duty. I loved the movie not matter what anyone says.