Alan Benfield Jr (alanbenfieldjr)
Okay I got it. Director Muccino must have found a profitable vein and he's exploiting it in a rather shameless fashion. The script, very much like in "Summertime" "The Pursuit Of Happiness" and "Seven Pounds" is an expositional tear jerker with characters who explain themselves with every line of dialogue.
Russell Crowe has his first seizure within the first few minutes of the film and then he has others, I don't know how many but it felt like 400. So at the end we have a 2 hour movie out of a tiny idea swollen by an infinite series of cliches that includes, I'm not kidding, a musical, romantic montage when the young lovers first meet. The extraordinary Janet McTeer has one scene and the extraordinary Jane Fonda, one or two. So this must have been an expensive production and in fact Fathers and Daughters has everything , cast, looks, settings, everything except real thought and original ideas.
maoenjoyhappy
Jake, a notable novelist, stays at a hospital to heal a mental breakdown due to his wife dying of a car crash by his driving. This leads him to live separately with his beloved little daughter, Katy, for 7 months. After getting older, traumatized Katy is in a trouble with loving people. Then, she meets up a man who admires Jake's novel, Cameron
This film is confusing at first because the story goes on back and force. Yet, this is like a riddle and a key to ambiguous scenes by degrees. At the same time, the film is beyond words and it is literally hard to hold back tears. In particular, Jake's struggling of both taking care of Katy and writing a novel simultaneously is described. This makes me think better of what my father has done to me in a daily life positively. I was wondering why the title "Fathers and Daughters" is plural. If this story is just related to Jake and Katy, this should be singular title "Father and Daughter". In my opinion, this story conveys a message to us to value family bond more and more in general. In addition, seemingly the film is about father and daughter story, but Katy's love story is included. Keep an eye on the film!
Caleb Whitney
Spoilers are in the first paragraph so if you want to avoid the spoilers, you should just read the second paragraph. This film was excellent. So much emotion and so much to say about fathers and daughters. The little girl's relationship with her dad was sweet and that story is very nice, even when (spoiler coming up here!) the guy from Gladiator whacks his head on the bathroom thing and dies. It's sad but still, life is like that and you just think the little girl will probably get a new family and she's young so she might not even remember him. But what is important is it was good while it lasted. Life always has phases and sometimes it's sad to leave one phase even though a new one might be more exciting. Too bad we never get to see how it works out for her.But mostly what stays with you is how in the other part of the movie there's this blonde chick just can't get enough action. I was never able to figure out why it's like two movies in one because you never see the writer guy and the little girl go into any of the scenes with the dude from Breaking Bad and the hot blonde chick. But it was so hot how she was like the most promiscuous chick you ever could imagine. She's like one of those chicks that has a good job helping orphans during the day and after work she like cheats on every boyfriend because she's a raging wh*re 24/7! So hot. I recommend this film due to the hot cheating action.
stephyxmccollum
Seriously I've not cried like that all the way through a film as much as i have with this one absolute amazing!! To top it of my favourite actor Russell Crowe was in it and my favourite actress :) absolute amazing! The best film i have watched in a while!! So heart breaking!! Aaron Paul done really fantastic too first I've ever seen him in anything and he played fantastic. Amazing acting amazing story line just brilliant would definitely keep watching it even if it does make me cry!! Really if you were to give this film a go be prepared and get the tissues at the ready because you will sure need them from the beginning to the end... Will need the full box preferably lol!
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