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wishes it was a better movie

posted 16 years ago by hiroshiyata
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This movie was terrible. I can see how some of you might enjoy it for it's "feel-good" ending, but it was mediocre at best and atrociously offensive at worst.

There are so many movies similar to it (Cinema Paradiso instantly springs to mind, and House of D isn't a million miles away from Bad Education, either, but without the cheesy hollywood happy ending crap) that I wonder if any of you who like this movie have seen any actual coming-of-age stories.

The movie simply never went anywhere, Tommy moving to France was completely unbelievable, and the ending was wrapped so neatly it was offensive. I'm offended all over again just thinking about it. I don't know where you all live, but in the real world, real tragedies have real consequences; a 13 year old packing up and moving to France and becoming a successful photographer (albeit with a fractured marriage) does not happen. And healing old wounds is not as simple as visiting your old chums that you abandoned 30 years ago (including a convicted woman who you only knew, by voice, for a month or two).

Dismal.

[–] Pippy-4 16 years ago

It was described as an urban fairytale so it didn't have to be believable. That said i really loved it. It has done very well on DVD. Ive seen far worse do better at the boxoffice. To bad because it was a very sweet film.

[–] SoylentGreenScreenPodcast 8 years ago

It's not a realistic film, but I don't think it was trying to be. It was told from the perspective of a fractured man and his memories. If you look at it from one man's nostalgia and his romanticised past, it's quite good. Also he was a writer and had a gift for fiction.