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Adding to the critical accolades here and elsewhere, let me say that this is a wonderfully human film, realistic and subtle in its story telling, which pulls you in gradually, much like some of the characters like the two protagonists and the loan officer and then the recording technician. I would estimate that about 70% of the film is music, much of it really good. This one reminded me a bit of "The Committments", which I now plan to dig out and revisit. Highly recommeded. I missed this at Cape Cod's only "art" cinema and was surprised to see it open here locally in a theater which ran crap all Summer. Highly tecommended.
P.S., After you've seen it check out the spoiler in the IMDB writeup to find out what the girl said when they were in the park.
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One of the more enjoyable experiences I've had at the movies this year - small in scale, but very well done.
Small can be just great.
be careful not to pump it up when recomending it. It has no wow factor. Not that there is anything wrong with that but I think great expectations will not serve someone watching this film. Someone really pumped it up to me before I saw it. I walked out thinking well that was a nice film but not the amazing revelation in film making as it had been described to me. Hour or so later i thought no that wasn't a nice film it was a very nice film just not as grand film.
It's what I describe as a small movie and that is not meant as any criticism at all.
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and the show was sold out and a bunch of teary eyed people were leaving the theater.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
...they were tears of joy for a truly beautiful story, not of sorrow for the lack of hook-up. At least in my case!
clark
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"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
This ranks with "The Station Agent", "Half Nelson", and "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont", all about unusual platonic relationships and all first class enjoyable movies
... it was unfulfilled.
I thought there was a real sexual charge to it and the fact that the two of them fell in loove during the making of the film would seem to support that.
This common modern interpretation (i.e., a non-sexual relationship) is a misunderstanding of the nature of the Platonic ideal of love, which from its origin was that of a chaste but passionate love, based not on lack of interest but on spiritual transmutation of the sex force, opening up vast expanses of subtler enjoyments than sex. In its original Platonic form, this love was meant to bring the lovers closer to wisdom and the Platonic Form of Beauty. It is described in depth in Plato's Phaedrus and Symposium. In the Phaedrus, it is said to be a form of divine madness that is a gift from the gods, and that its proper expression is rewarded by the gods in the afterlife; in the Symposium, the method by which love takes one to the form of beauty and wisdom is detailed.
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everything else, too) than "The Commitments."
True love stories are hard to find these days, most efforts opting for cynicism, grossness, or over explicitness in the name of realism.
But this film is more. It also shows the hardships striving artists face in being true to their dreams.
I hope my comments doesn't make the film sound "smarmy." It's not!
The young actress refreshingly is original, being spirited without the Hollywoodish cutesy baggage. She also is beautiful in a real-woman way, her imperfections making her seem authentic and not cartoonish, robotic, or mass-produced.
Well said.
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