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Ordinary People  (1980)

This one is, for what it's worth, a member of my Top Five, and is the single most touching movie I've ever seen.  Let me tell you why (you must want to know, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this).  From a purely "high-brow, upper-echelon, I go to college and, boy, I'm smart" point of view, this is a very well put-together film.  In his intensely personal style, Robert Redford did things with the camera only indie student filmmakers are brave/stupid enough to do, but these angles and motions are used in such a way as to open up a sort of painful dialogue.  You'll be depressed from the camera work alone.  The music is none too shabby to this end, either, as the less is more classical soundtrack plays like an orchestral sob song.  Then you get to the story, which is, without a doubt, so damned sad!  These titular characters are just so honest in their suffering you can't help but feel for them and empathize and sympathize and end up remembering the little or big tragedies you've suffered.  It's all almost too much.

So, you're wondering if it's entertaining.  In a most dramatic way, yes.  I warn you, there is no real silver lining, but this is a simplistically beautiful stormcloud if ever there was one.  Please, watch this movie. 

posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 2:04 AM by CairoBelfast


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