Bad movie

for your remark, i am not a film art snob.. i'm just suggesting probably it is for older generation and maybe it is just not your cuppa tea but it is mine..
and yes i do love chocolat and foreign movie etc and sorry if i'm missing your point, but just because i love this movie doesn't mean that i'm a fanatic.. yes there is a few plotholes but overall this movie is one of the greatest australian movies :)

I am an eighteen yearold american girl living in new york city. I saw this film at the Anjelika Film Center and I was more than impressed. It is truly, in my opinion, a thing of beauty.

I have rarely seen a film that so piercingly illustrates the transcendant healing power of love. This film showed me that love reaches out through all human constructs, be they social, physical, or cultural. It is a small story that through the artistry of it's production, on the part of everyone involved, left me profoundly affected.

This is not to say that everyone would be touched by this film in the same way that I was. That is impossible, different people inevitably will have different reactions. But my reaction is a testament to the fact that this film does have the potential and the power to move a person deeply, and in a hugely positive way.

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I really enjoyed this film. I started watching it part way through (when they were stranded in the outback). My initial reaction was one of strong dislike for the characters. She was annoying, loud and brash - he was rigid, domineering and uptight. I am SO glad I watched it to the end. It took me on a journey that portrayed how love, passion and respect can grow between two completely opposite individuals. Despite the differences that result from living worlds apart, not only geographically but culturally as well. Beautiful, tragic, and moving.

Okay. Three years later, but I will respond to this as an American who saw the movie (a while ago, granted, but I've read much of this board and am still, after all of the threads I've read around here, surprised by what I stumble upon... go figure)...

I'm in my early forties and female. I'm not an art snob, a movie snob or any other sort of snob that I'm aware of, but would just like to say first and foremost, that when you do not like the movie, it does not automatically make the movie bad. It means simply that you did not like the movie. Possibly, the movie was bad. But perhaps you should simply state the comment, "I did not like the movie," and why. Because honestly? Some of these posts sound a little ridiculous. *when I say YOU, I'm not addressing you specifically, above poster, I'm talking in general to everyone out here in message-board land... do not feel slammed, please.*

Okay. So the movie. I really enjoyed it. Toni Collette did a wonderful job as did Gotaro Tsunashima. Over the top? Who can say how they themselves would act if a person they were with dove into a body of water and broke their neck dying instantly right in front of them.

The cinematography was lovely.

I am a fan of a couple of the movies you've mentioned above, have not seen others, do not own any of them. Does this make me a bad person or have some obvious problem that makes me somehow deficient and my opinion not count for you?

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Well, if people are going to go on a BOARD where people are discussing the movie, you have to expect people to be discussing the PLOT! (or in this case a lack of one, in my opinion) What else would you expect? I agree with vbagusau - look elsewhere than on a chatboard.

Hang on, you just rebuted my point by suggesting that it's *not* difficult to DISCUSS a movie that you havn't seen because people who are eagar to see a film like to see what other people are saying about it and so they go where comments are being made about it... Yeah.. like 'User Comments'. Ever heard of that?

Yes, people who haven't seen a movie may be interested to *see what other people are saying about it* but this is entirely different to actually *discussing* the movie.

"...and no, I'm not going to stop looking at boards for movies I haven't and may wish to see."

Well, do what you like. No one's going to stop you. Just don't complain about how you think that not giving spoiler warnings *on a message board* is "thoughtless", because I have already explained to you how it's not thoughtless.. because people view messages boards as being for the purpose of DICUSSION... Which is *entirely* different from "seeing what other people think."

No need to thank me. I'm only trying to help.

But.. on the same note, I do see what you mean. If I ever want to comment about a movie and its not really obvious in the title of the discussion that it's going to be about the plot, I'll insert a spoiler warning.. But I still maintain that these people here weren't "thoughtless".