This movie has no artistical or psychological value it is only emotional manipulation.
Le seul but du film Aurore était de faire de l'argent en faisant pleurer les matantes. Ce film est totalement inutile.
Si vous voulez voir un bon film sur le thème de la maratre, vous n'avez qu'à regarder Vipère au poing, un film fait par un vrai réalisateur et mettant en vedette de vrais acteurs.
Merci c'est ce que je me tue a dire depuis le mois de juillet.
J'étais sûre que j'étais la seule a m'en être rendu compte.
Jme suis ennuyé...de tes bonnes toasts au fer à repasser...
- Raymond Beaulieu
Hi to everyone,
I was surprised to see all the comments posted over a movie which is very different than what Hollywood's Dream Factory mass produces and floods the country if not the world with. I am impressed and reassured that there still exists people that will assess a movie for its artistic, message, meaning, etc... values. Thank you to all.
In reality, Aurora could have been "spiced up" with gory scenes like the 1952 version (for the times) in order to bring it to todays graphics and possibly make it a "Canadian sized" success such as Americans do. Aurora is a story relating events that actually took place in 1920, not a "Emotional Manipulation" novel. Remember that America (Hollywood) has made over the years, masterpieces who reflected the genuine reality of what life was for some of it's people: Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath '40, Wyler's Best Years of our Lives '46, Kazan's On the Waterfront '54 even Coppola's Apocalypse Now '79. These movies may seem tame by today's standards. I can tell you that since they are based on true stories or partly relate to actual events, they are extremely powerful images or reminders to the people that lived these dramas. The same is true for Aurora's death. I was raised in the farming community by grand-parents 60 years senior to me. Aurora's ordeal, the harshness of pre mechanized farming and the tragedy of everyday life (loosing 3 brothers out of seven in young age)was very real for them. Each community, mine included had it's dirty secrets. Aurora is part of OUR (Quebec) historical heritage just like Grapes of Wrath was to the Midwesterners that suffered through the Great Depression. I can tell you that I heard bits and pieces of Aurora's story in my youth (which I thought was a legend-based story to scare naughty little boys like me!). I was shocked to recently discover that Aurora was actually a true story. My parents are dead but I can imagine what viewing Aurora's movie would have meant to them.
Another example, I am a war veteran who saw action in 3 recent wars. Looking at Best Years of our Lives or Apocalypse Now surrounds me with extremely painful flashbacks that I have never fully resolved just like the landing scene from Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan '98 will have on our World War II Veterans.
Finally, let's not forget the reality of film making, it still remains a business, you have to pay your crews, at least break even. Aurora is a movie which does not have the mass appeal of mediocre productions such as Pirates of the Carribeans II. It was a difficult movie to "sell to" audiences because it related events that touch a small percentage of movie goers i.e. native French Canadians of older generation and movie buffs.
My hat goes to all the people involved in it's production, my prayers go to Aurora and her families, and my hopes so that no human of any age suffers such a fate.
Thank you,
Guy "Lancelot" L-N
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Yup but there is no need for a movie sorry there but that story has been used and used over and over again to make money under the "we tell facts the way they are to make people know" cover. Plus, a lot of things that happenned in the movie didn't even happen in real life. I suppose you're a Candian or a Quebecer I don't know, but if you are, aren't you tired of hearing Nathalie Simard telling her frickin' story over and over again ? I mean sorry this is a sad story and telling things the way they are means saying "Guy cloutier sexually abused that little girl when she was young and was keeping her under fear for years" period. No one needs to know all the details, and no one needs a movie to see the story of Aurore with all the details (even more if it isn't even the true story). It's all just show-business and trying to get money using the stories of others because they make more money because they are "lived facts". Whatever, just my opinion.
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i can agree vipere au poing was much much more well thought out...plus, following the novel, it was much more about the psychological battle in a dysfunctional family...
Yes, Aurore has its sad moments and makes u feel bad for the characters n such, but its only a 'on the surface' representation of the problem, whereas vipere au poing really deals with the much more important mental, emotional and overal psychological issues of the family members
And even if it was emotional manipulation, it is not exactly a story that lacks pulling at the heart strings unless you have a heart of stone. It is a story that cannot be told with out it being emotional because of its subjet which is pretty horrific.
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