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Ordinary People' remake??????????

posted 20 years ago by agalleni
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The subject is definety touching and emotionally deep, no doubt aout it, but the basic line and message of the movie apparently has been taken out of "Ordinary People".

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[–] cinthyareotiz 19 years ago

yeah both are great movies, I think its kindda "Todo sobre mi madre" from Pedro Almodovar too. at the end of "La stanza del figlio" i felted that the characters were more like in a limbo. a sad movie about losing someone

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[–] toddschaferdpm 18 years ago

Ordinary People was definitely darker. The son battling the guilt issues (as opposed to the father in Son's Room) was much more unstable. I think Ordinary People showed more how a family hanging on by a thread can be totally ripped apart by a tradgedy, but, even in the most stable of households (as in the Son's Room) it is going to affect the family. That is the only reason the second family was able to weather.....their strong base going in...

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[–] milad_khalilian 15 years ago

Although the subject is similar, but I think Son's room is much stronger to express feelings of family members and the emotional states of them. Ordinary people is a good movie,but Son's room is better

[–] TheQuietStorm 15 years ago

I disagree with the O.P. and this ^^^ guy. This movie was very good but not better than "Ordinary People" in my humble opinion. I like the comparisons made throughout this thread though. I was reminded of "All About My Mother" at one point.

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[–] shawthingfilms 13 years ago

**Spoilers***

All great films have universal themes. Everyone will experience at some point, the loss of a family member. Both films have similar themes but they are very different. The family in The Son's Room function differently than that of the family in Ordinary People. At the beginning there is no lack of love. The family in Ordinary People are dysfunctional in that the mother cannot show her son love or affection. The death of the son brings this into light in a way that could not have easily been seen before. Calvin is different than the father in the son's room. Whilst the two men have similar reactions to their son's deaths, they make different choices towards the end of each film. The family at the end of 'The Son's room' are dealing with their own grief in their own ways but they are still drawn together by a strong bond. At the end of Ordinary People, Conrad and Calvin are able to move past their grief and reconcile, but Beth, the mother does not have that capacity so she leaves.

Do not be mistaken, these are two very different, but powerful and beautifully written films. They have different messages. Each has it's own subtleties that lie in each of the family members reactions to the tragedies that mark their lives. The Son's Room shows a family that do move on from tragedy, now fully aware of their flaws and willing to change. Ordinary People shows a family unable to come together after tragedy, because one of the members is unable to change and grow when the other two do.

[–] MikeGrossman34 11 years ago

I totally agree that these films are different in several important respects, altough I do find some irony in the title of both movies. Maybe not so much irony, but more understatedness.

"Ordinary People" was no ordinary film and involved extraordinary characters. It was a gripping, emotional drama. So the title seems understated, perhaps purposefully so.

"The Son's Room" was not about the son's room, and not even much about the son, as we, like the family in the film, don't get to know that much about him. For example, the father didn't know what kind of music he liked and had to ask the store clerk to help him pick something out. No one knew that he had a befriended a girl at camp. No one seemed to have any idea what he was up to at school. They had to go into his room after he died to get a sense of who he actually was. All they knew was that he was a part of their family and that they loved him. So the title seems a bit understated, since the room is not the lynchpin to the emotional drama.

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[–] flaiky 8 years ago

They are similar films, I agree. They're both excellent, but Ordinary People feels even more intimate and allows you to know the characters better - which is important for a film like this.

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