Oscar et la dame rose

Thanks for the excellent, emotional, moving story.

10-year-old Oscar overhears Prof. Dusseldorf (Max von Sydow) telling his parents that he is dying. He wants to talk to only the dirty-mouth lady in pink, Rose. She was at the hospital selling pizzas in her uniform claiming to be a lady wrestler. Dusseldorf offers to buy her pizzas if she visits him everyday. The opinionated Rose is not comfortable with hospitals or a dying kid but she tells him wrestling tall tales. She convinces him to write letters to God and releases them tied to a balloon. The other kids in the hospital include Popcorn, Einstein, Bacon, China Girl, and his crush Peggy Blue who is blue from her sickness.

This is simply a deliberate tear-jerker. There isn't anything wrong with that but this is solely a dying kid movie. First of all, I would change the pizza thing. I have never heard of somebody trying to sell pizzas quite that way. Believability is not necessarily top priority but Rose should be doing something that actually exists. There are some cool ideas but the story lacks tension because the ending is not in doubt. It could be nice to add a wrestling match for the kids or make costumes for them. This movie has a precious premise and delivers the expected jears.

I cam tell one thing: if I had known the story I was going to see I certainly wouldn't have started. I don't really like this kind of extremely sad films, especially when they are are about sick children. But I started watching the movie and, even if I have used a lot of tissues to dry my eyes, I am kind of happy I have. On the one hand, it is a sad story, but, on the other hand, it is a very optimistic one. This rough lady in pink finds solutions where the gentle doctor has failed to. Medicine is beaten, humanity is not. The dialogue between the pizza lady and the sick boy is an example (of course, unrealistic sometimes) of psychologists' talent. Oscar is desperate and alone in his fatal malady, but his new friend fills his life and brings back everybody to him: his parents, the nurses and even his "girlfriend". It is somehow a therapy and a family therapy for Rose, who regains her son and daughter. And, finally, it is a therapy for the doctor himself, who gets his self-confidence back. What a pity it takes the death of a little boy fr his spectacular gains ... All in all, the acting is great, but ... I confess I am a little worried for the young actors who played. How much this "game" will influence there lives?