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CHRISTMAS ROSE (2013) Hong Kong. What an astonishing film! I sat for the first time ever, riveted to my chair AT HOME after watching a film and seeing the credits. I am still in shock, and my spine is tingling. Don't miss this film, and just concentrate on the subtitles. The English subtitles are 2 or 3 seconds early, so you have to concentrate on who is talking. It's annoying and hurts the enjoyment of watching the film, but it does nor ruin the power of the message and the story. A celebrity doctor is accused of sexual assault by a young, disabled piano teacher. She teaches his daughter, and she is also his patient. The prosecutor gets this as his first case after being a defense lawyer for 15 years. Note the relationship between the prosecutor and his father. Magnificent story.! asiancrush on ROKU.

As someone who has studied and taught Hemingway for 40 years and read all his works, countless times, I think the main question here is what would Hemingway himself think of the way he is portrayed in this film. Remember please that someone else finished and edited the entire novel. So can you say it was written by Hemingway? What would he himself think about this work, which was so important to him that he worked on it for decades, and could never get it right enough to finish it. I think he would be enraged and feel betrayed by those who rewrote his work. Hemingway was so unique as a person with a true gift for saying so very much in so very few words, and so unique as a person who had deep human needs coupled with a fearlessness possessed by few, that I dare anyone to copy his style successfully. I have done that over the years, and I've never seen anyone succeed. So finishing the novel, and editing the entire work by another or others, is a fraud to call it a Hemingway novel or film based on it.

I gave it a rating of 1. The story is simple and disgusting. It is a story of drinking and madness. It's in black and white, mostly black b/c you can hardly see anything. The two characters slur their words, not bothering to enunciate. The script is moronic and basically reciting from literature of some kind, but it is madness, so its content means nothing. They drink; they fight; they both are insane. The film is disgusting and boring, boring, boring. Where did the rating of 8.3 come from. Seriously, something is rotten in Denmark. I wanted to walk out, but I had to write a review of this to warn people.