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SPOILER ALERT
It's always risky to watch a movie made from a book you liked, and I did like the book version of the story quite a bit...it was lyrical and dreamy and morally challenging. The film, for some reason, inserted a weird narrative about abortion, which was not part of the original story. It also made Maureen, the best friend, a Christian virgin. So of course the whole thing becomes a religious morality play, whereby the bad girl chooses to die to make up for the life she took. Yuck. The book had none of that nonsense. And in fact, the (anti-)heroine made quite a different choice in the book, which offered a completely different twist on the "choose life" thing--in the book the grown-up Diana sees a bumper sticker with that saying on it--the person who wrote the screenplay obviously noticed that and decided to make it more of a propaganda piece, instead of a morally ambiguous fable.
That said, the performances were good, and it may be that the whole story would have played better to someone who hadn't read (and liked) the original novel.
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I havent read the book, but now I would like too. The movie was too confusing, I wasnt sure at first whether or not the main girl was a ghost or what. A customer at work explained it to me and then I understood. The girl did die and the whole movie was what she had envisioned in the two seconds before she died. I didnt really like the movie, I'm not an Uma Thurman fan at all, but I would like to read the book to see if it'll explain in greater detail. This movie rents really well, a lot of people are immensouly curious about it and have deemed it a "work of art". I found that you have to devote your entire attention to this movie, or you are really going to become lost like I did. So if you got alot of time to sit and think i would watch it, but if you have a short attention span and are easily confunded dont watch, you'll feel that you haave wasted your time.
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This movie was a struggle to watch at first--similar to the frustration I feel when I'm expected to read minds. It could be that I missed too many of the clues I could have caught if I weren't trying so hard to get it all at once. A friend and I did have fun with the lingering question marks we felt weren't so explicitly answered by the end of the movie. Admittedly, it took a second viewing and additional light from "cliff notes" audio commentary for me to fully appreciate the brilliant story telling of this film. In a way that is rich with imagery, and radiating with sincerity, the film reaches so deep into the soul... I had trouble "putting it down," and just moving on with the everyday routines of life.
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I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THESE OTHER PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IN THEIR REVIEWS, MAYBE THEY ALL TOOK THE SAME PILL AND WATCHED IT TOGETHER...WHO KNOWS. LET ME PAINT THE PICTURE FOR YOU. IMAGINE A BEAUTIFUL VIBRANT FLOWER DESPERETLY PUSHING ITS WAY THROUGH A STEAMING PILE OF DOGGY DOOKIE, AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. THE MOVIE HAS ITS MOMENTS AND MAY EVEN KEEP YOUR INTEREST FOR A WHILE, WITH THAT IN MIND THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO IS TURN OFF THE MOVIE ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES PRIOR TO THE END CREDITS AND COME UP WITH YOUR OWN ENDING. DON'T GET ME WRONG I LOVE THE "ARTSY" MOVIES AS MUCH AS THE NEXT GUY, BUT COME ON.
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From the very first images of the bright, pastel flowers, accomponied by the haunting music in the background, the shots of a school, a statue, birds flying, from those first moments of the movie you are completley entranced and swept into a story about the choices we make and the effects it has on us.
The Life Before Her Eyes tells the story of young Diana, a reckless, wild teenager who seems to not have a care in the world and her best friend Maureen, a timid, religious girl who instantly bonds with the wild child one day at school and they became strong friends. Then one day, while in the bathroom at school, a student comes with a loaded gun and begans to shoot down students before making his way into the bathroom and holds the gun to them saying "which one of you is going to die?". Fast forward and Diana is now a mother and wife, who finds her life beginning to steadily break down on the fiftenth aniversary of the shooting, where her actions in the past come back to haunt her.
The film, like Atonement, makes use of the surreal imagery, the director bathing everything in soft sunlight, giving it an almost dream like quality to it all, letting ordinary things like water, food, buildings, flags, everything just come alive, making every detail almost as important as the characters. Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood are both superb in the roles of Diana and Eva Amurri is another standout as the best friend.
The pacing of the film goes by at a brisk but not rush paced, giving just enough time for every character to grow and develop, which all leads up to such an ending that it demands an instant reveiwing of the film, where you begin to notice even more things you might have missed in the first and finding out the little hints that may indicate to what may happen.
By far one of the most overlooked films of 2007, this is a true art of a film that will leave you breathless by the very end.
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