sammy105

*spoilers alert* The.... main attraction in this movie was watching the world-class actors like Zellweger struggle to give some decent flow and put color into the life-less and horrific directing by this guy. He's done 8 movies total, nothing big like this film.

The ending feels like.... it's fast-forwarded, frankly. I was reeeeally looking forward to seeing how Zellwegger would adapt to MN after moving from Miami, how her love with the guy would work out, who will move and where. Many, many questions left unanswered. And... the lack of camera movement is annoying! WHo makes a silly movie like this and leaves a camera still for 20, 30 sec at a time? Someone needs to give this director Movies Making 101.

This movie simply put is a cinematic masterpiece. Rarely does a movie get me to... practically sob unstoppably almost from beginning to end, but this one did. Every detail is licked, the music not only flows along with every moment, but adds a good deal of content all on its own.

Luc Besson, unlike most directors nowadays it seems, has an excellent take on child phychology, right up there with Stephen King himself. A child is shown here not as a fragile creature in need of constant looking over by adults, but more like a member of a society like any other red-blooded American. The fact that kids are susceptible to practically all the dangers that adults are today is portrayed in the movie very well.

The movie does not have scenes that attract attention by asking the actors show weakness, to cry, to express feelings with words, but everything is done in situations, music, and cinematic tricks of different kinds.

This is not a movie to make one feel gooey and tender on the inside, but rather to provoke a spurt of emotion that hides inside every one of us. Not the kind that's felt by watching a romance flick. This is something different. Modern movie makers have quite a few things to learn from Besson. Movies like this one can change our skewed outlook on life and... make us born again.