how unique


yet another movie about someone running from his past starring Colin Firth...alas. I love his work, but I wish he'd do something fresh and entertaining rather than psuedopsychological and broody. Just a thought.

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What other film hashe done like this?
I'm struggling to think of one.

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Well, he has done several running from his past:

A Summer in Genoa (Getting over dead wife)
Love Actually (Getting over cheating girlfriend)
Hope Springs (getting over breakup)
When Did You Last See Your Father (getting over his father's death)

And several where he's healing from break ups:
A Single Man
Then She Found Me




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By your criteria, virtually everything counts as "getting over something". I cannot think of a single Colin Firth film - or indeed of any good film in general!- as not being susceptible to be interpreted in this way. "Pride and Prejudice" - getting over a fairly arrogant and dismissive view of other people, "King's Speech" - getting over a crippling disability, "Bridget Jones's Diary" - getting over an image of a stilted lawyer (and getting over a divorce and the betrayal that preceded it). And then there is the hugely underrated "Secret Laughter of Women" where his hero gets over his prejudices, and many of his earliest gems - "A Month in the Country" and "Tumbledown" - getting over the Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, "Apartment Zero" - getting over his stifled personality (albeit in a fairly sinister way) - well, just take his whole filmography and find me a film that is not about "getting over something". Most of life itself is about "getting over something", which you seem to tacitly acknowledge by including in your list both comedies and tragedies that Firth has participated in. So what exactly do you expect him to do to "break the mold"?
Personally, I agree a hundred percent with another poster here: all of Firth's films are unique and he is unique in most of them. The fact that most are about "getting over something" is just testament to the fact that the films are good and realistic (in the broadest and best sense of the term).

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Aren't stories/films supposed to be journeys?

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Every single movie with Colin Firth is unique, in my opinion.

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It is alright to have such thoughts. He was terrific in Pride & Prejudice and in Love Actually.

Ilania Abileah
Artist, and Culture Reporter

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