From your comments, I am really looking forward to my experience & viewing of this picture-movie later today... It's all so enticing and bringing me back to my appraisal of his "Sweet hereafter" production ... not to mention 'Where the truth lies"... !?
I shall get back to [all of] you tomorrow...
PIERRE/Brussels
So, it's after tomorrow, almost a month after, actually. What did you think?
shareMaybe she/he is dead...
shareWell, if that's the case, I hope it's not the film that killed him or her.
shareI'm not the OP, but I was looking forward to see this film since I enjoyed Egoyan's other works.
This film is a disappointment.
my vote history:
http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=27424531
It's certainly far from Atom Egoyan's best, but I liked it, probably more than you did.
shareMost likely. I find this film such a failure that I don't even find pleasure in discussing it.
my vote history:
http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=27424531
I liked it as well, I've been a fan of Mr. Egoyan since I saw 'Speaking Parts' like 18 years ago. 'Adoration' is certainly not amongst his best films however all in all it's a quite decent movie. I wasn't disappointed at all. Perhaps those who disliked it never saw an Egoyan film before. Just a guess.
You are probably right that the people who disliked this film probably weren't familiar with Atom Egoyan's work. Possibly casting Scott Speedman as one of the leads drew a different, much younger crowd to this film.
I have seen all of Egoyan's films that I have access to, including the superb "Speaking Parts," which you mentioned. In terms of quality, I'd place "Adoration" between those experimental early works but not quite up to the excellence of "Exotica" and "The Sweet Hereafter," which I consider his finest films.
I just started to watch it and I'll get back here and let you all know what I thought of it.
When You Know Better, You'll Do Better.
OK I gave it a 6, it turned out to be pretty good. It just started a little slow. At the near the end when he threw his Nokia in the fire, why not just delete the video.
When You Know Better, You'll Do Better.
vscalesptt, I think the meaning of throwing the whole camera in the fire instead of deleting it was him admitting that the whole act of him documenting/recording was causing problems. It wasn't enough to just delete it. He had to 'kill the monster', so to speak.
I want to be the hero of the day