albert-delaunay
Like so many artsy fartsy I want you to watch this for it's slow paced crap movie, this film subscribes to the idea that any old bs that you feed up to a pseudo intellectual audience will be absorbed in the same way that any action crap flick that you feed to the opposite dimension will work. This film is DULL. DULL DULL DULL. Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman can't save this yawn and ED Harris delivers a stereotype of a Mr Criminal ex-lover/bf/husband despite labouring the opposite. This is rubbish disguised thinly as art. Thank god for Twin Peaks!
SnoopyStyle
It's 1998. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a Jewish classics professor at Athena College. He comments that two students are spooks for missing class. It turns out that they're black and complains are filed about its racist connotation. Coleman is incensed and his wife dies from the stress. He hires fiction writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) to write about his life. He recalls his early life (Wentworth Miller) and his love Steena Paulsson (Jacinda Barrett). He starts having a fling with a much younger Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman). Her ex-husband Lester Farley (Ed Harris) is unstable and stalking her. Coleman's lawyer Nelson Primus (Clark Gregg) tries to talk him out of his relationship.This struggles to gather any speed. The Hopkins Kidman romance holds the potential of something compelling. Based on the novel, this movie is all about the secret. I'm willing to swallow Hopkins' casting. The flashback to Wentworth Miller is problematic. It stalls the movie every time. It also reveals the secret right away which lessens any shock value. The flashbacks should be pushed further back in the film so that his rejections in both time periods happen at the same time. There is a passionate affair at the center but all around it, the movie keeps working to drain away the tension.
Elvis Mantegna
A rape of a genial novel. Poor Philip Roth. Even though is hard to adapt such a complex novel, more could be done to highlight the introspection of characters, which has a dominant role in the book and it's totally forgotten in the movie. awful choice of actors/actresses. Delphine should be half her age, as well as Nathan, while the choice of Nicole Kidman, even though her well-known acting skills, should have come together with a facial plastic or the use of special effects of "make-up", which seems to lack in every other character. screenplay odd, wonder if director and screen player actually read the novel, for sure they're not P.R.'s fans and reader.
kikoshaus
This film tells us about the confrontation with the past of two different characters. I really like this part because Faunia (Nicole Kidman) has a soul living with a bundle of very tragic episodes needing to be shared about her life. It's not only about Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins)'s secret here. Coleman indeed realizes has 'two bloods' in a time when realizing that involved intolerance and lack of respect; so he stays away of it even this decision involves his own family. On the other hand, Faunia realizes her new family environment is negative for her and she decides to stay away from this but she gets involved in an abusive relationship later on, so again she's being chased from what she's escaping from. Coleman, many years later, sees himself being accused of what he didn't confront many years earlier, probably just a coincidence, probably just something else. Thus, those two characters met each other and I think that's the most positive way had to go for them. They had stories to tell and eventually, you need someone to share your stuff no matter how tragic is your story... perhaps you find someone that not only can listen to you but also, give you love and... as a plus, he's got a secret for you.
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