I felt like sobbing (SPOILERS)

I saw this last night for the first time, and i DID cry at the end, and i havent actually cried at the end of a film or tv show in ages!!! I thought Lily's story was so tragic, i could feel her pain and desperation at every turn . I thought Gilllian Anderson acted superbly and deserved the award/s she won for playing this role. The script is also elegant and intelligent, i shall probably check out the book.

Maybe your tear ducts were functioning, but your brain must have been out visiting someone else. The performances were, without exception, execrable. Anderson's was the worst, followed closely by Eric Stoltz's totally dim effort.

Apparently, no X File fans are well enough educated to know that the story was shamelessly stolen from Flaubert's "Madame Bovary."

There was not a single professional quality performance in this doggy-bag of a film, not one. The dialog was as stilted and dull as the actors who mouthed the words.

But, despite the general horridness with which this film stank up the set all around her, Anderson still stood out as the worst of the worst, with her breathy, uncertain, and downright nervous parody of a wealthy American woman of the period. When an actor can stand out as a shambles in the midst of a film that is nothing but shambles, then the low point of cinema has been definitely established, and this film is it.

And, no, you do NOT watch enough good movies. If you did, you'd have realized that this one is a powerful stinker.

I loved this movie, though many friends and even my mother have not. In fact, my mom can never get past the first five minutes of it...she says it is slow moving and boring. And one of my friends watched it with me and at the end of the movie (when I had been sobing from the last thirty minutes of the movie) she just said, "Why didn't she just get over him?"

I don't understand how they can feel that way about the movie...but I guess to each their own. But, no matter what others think, I loved the movie and it makes me cry every time. It's truly sad...yet beautiful.

It was a heartbreaking end to Lily's struggles. I wanted to grab the bottle from her and give her comfort... when Lawrence first eyes the burnt letters, I felt a sense of frustration only because by that point, we knew Lily was gone and there was nothing Lawrence could have done to bring her back. The acting during that scene, on Stoltz's part, is very tender. The film itself is incredibly resonating... saw it for the first time last night and lay in bed thinking about what I had just seen. The silky smooth pacing, delightfully understated acting, delicate soundtrack, and absorbing story make for one of my favourite films. I was completely consumed by the story and cared very much about Lily. Gillian Anderson's performance is so vibrant and evocative. I felt her regrets of how she handled money, I sunk with her when the settlements she begins to endure start to overshadow the vibrance she exuded in the beginning 'chapter' of the film. Her line delivery is very precise and can be so starkly contrastive... from the tenderness of 'Why is it that when we meet, we always play this elaborate game?' to the desperation in 'I am at the end of my teather' in the hopes of Grace easing her financial issues, she does a fabulous job of portraying Lily's attributes.

We talked between the rooms until the moss had reached our lips.

My eyes started to mist when Lawrence snatches the letters out of the fire, looks at them and exclaims "Lily!"
I didn't read the book but I really didn't understand the way people acted. I was angry with Selden at the end, but also with Lily! Damned idiots!




Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!

You felt like sobbing??? EVERYBODY felt like sobbing!!!
David Traversa