9/10
Poetic is not enough for how evocative this film is
28 June 2012
This is the second Tim Robbins film I saw so far as I post this comment. There are still a load of superb films his career had laid for and I'm looking forward to it, especially Shawshank Redemption and Mystic River. I've haven't imagined yet Tim Robbins character could go deeper in an opposite sex relationship, whose history is so much saddening one can imagine. I can't judge Sarah Polley character's repetitive behavior and unremitting silence could hold for. There might be inconceivable misfortunes or harrowing experiences her character had endured to keep her silence seem unbreakable, her trust inaccessible, she's just strangely introvert and seem to shut down everything around her for years. It's pretty tough for viewers to put themselves in the shoes of Sarah's character. But I'm astounded as how hurtful indeed the truer repercussions of her agonizing past could have done in her present life. When I knew about her trauma there is so much of an ordeal a woman could bear than being plain dead a long time ago. It caught me off guard indeed while watching the film. Prejudging wouldn't be a cool idea. The words and sentences are playful throughout the film. It's the interesting part because many viewers had different views how to put the words Tim and Sarah's characters are telling. Even the people around give puzzling ideas how they convey their thoughts. I guess the film's title paid well in this manner.

Going to Tim Robbins. He's totally cool here from the last time I saw him in Jacob's Ladder. But his character's ordeal is nowhere cool than miserable. I'm impressed how they manage to link the characters and made relationship seem improbable to at least possible. It worked. Though how saddening the truth had been it's something that could be used to discover something else that might save you. This film made it possible.
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