Okay, just about everybody here seems to like Till Human Voices Wake Us. Maybe admitting that you didn't like it is admitting that you are stupid, don't know much about poetry, or can't understand artsy fartsy movies. Well, maybe I am just that. Oh yeah, I did get the whole movie was the guy's dream--not that the character of Ruby is the reincarnation of his childhood girlfriend, which is the movie's literal translation.
Guy Pierce is one of my favorite actors--and he is good here. Human Voices starts out promising enough with Pierce as a psychology professor giving a lecture about repressing memories. But Human Voices slides downhill from there. The pace is boring. I had the feeling if some scenes were added or edited, this could've been a good movie.
Pierce's emotionally cold father dies, and he goes back to his hometown to bury him--against his father's wishes to be buried in Melbourne. You never know why Pierce's dad was so distant--and do we really see the effects on Pierce's character because of that detachment? I also wanted to know what happened to his mother, but I didn't hear anything about her.
Pierce flashes back on his childhood and his handicapped girlfriend. She would sit on the sidelines reading T.S. Elliot while he would swim in the river. The two friends become romantic, but the movie is particularly slow getting there. On one tragic night, he helps her into the river holding her, but after awhile, she lets go of his hand, drowning in the murky water. But the adult Pierce saves the drowning Ruby, played by Helena Bonham-Carter, as she jumps off a bridge in a suicide attempt. Ruby has amnesia and seems to be the reincarnation of his childhood girlfriend. But how can that be? It must be a dream as Pierce says that he is like many psychoanalysts and doesn't dream because the subconscious doesn't like to be found out.
Human Voices sounds interesting, but it is not. It is tedious which is sad because it has an interesting concept. One of the few good scenes is the sex scene between Bonham Carter and Pierce because it seems to resolve much of the conflict in the movie. But it was still one of the many sub par movies I sat through that weekend.
Guy Pierce is one of my favorite actors--and he is good here. Human Voices starts out promising enough with Pierce as a psychology professor giving a lecture about repressing memories. But Human Voices slides downhill from there. The pace is boring. I had the feeling if some scenes were added or edited, this could've been a good movie.
Pierce's emotionally cold father dies, and he goes back to his hometown to bury him--against his father's wishes to be buried in Melbourne. You never know why Pierce's dad was so distant--and do we really see the effects on Pierce's character because of that detachment? I also wanted to know what happened to his mother, but I didn't hear anything about her.
Pierce flashes back on his childhood and his handicapped girlfriend. She would sit on the sidelines reading T.S. Elliot while he would swim in the river. The two friends become romantic, but the movie is particularly slow getting there. On one tragic night, he helps her into the river holding her, but after awhile, she lets go of his hand, drowning in the murky water. But the adult Pierce saves the drowning Ruby, played by Helena Bonham-Carter, as she jumps off a bridge in a suicide attempt. Ruby has amnesia and seems to be the reincarnation of his childhood girlfriend. But how can that be? It must be a dream as Pierce says that he is like many psychoanalysts and doesn't dream because the subconscious doesn't like to be found out.
Human Voices sounds interesting, but it is not. It is tedious which is sad because it has an interesting concept. One of the few good scenes is the sex scene between Bonham Carter and Pierce because it seems to resolve much of the conflict in the movie. But it was still one of the many sub par movies I sat through that weekend.