A River Runs Through It
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Movie Reviews of A River Runs Through It
Movie Review: Better than I expected . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
Some years ago my brother had the promotion poster for this movie framed and hanging in a wall of his apartment, my first and only thought was that it was a pretty cool photo.
But years after that I realized that it was a lot more and better than just that, when I came accross the actual DVD here on Amazon and I decided to give it a try on top of the nice price it was for sale.
This is a film like those for instance, when it all starts at some point of the characters life and it takes you all the way through their lives until 20 or 30 years later, it is something like The Color Purple, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Green Mile, Driving Miss Daisy and I can keep going on and on . . .
There are actually a lot of movies in that same path and in my humble and personal opinion, I love them.
All in all this is a very nice and enjoyable movie, if you are into family issues and traditions and family life and situations in general
then I would honestly recommend this one for you.
You will like it and will enjoy it too ! ! !
Movie Review: DVD - A River Runs Through It
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie moved me profoundly when I first saw it on TV. The story takes place around the depression and centers around the relationship of two very different brothers. There are wonderful nature scenes that take one's breath away and the scenes that particularly moved me, to tears, actually, was the one where the father, who is a minister and the two grown sons are fly fishing. The scenery is in Colorado and the sunlight pours down through the trees and makes the water of the wild stream sparkle. The beauty of the fishing lines moving, arcing and flowing through the air is like watching a wonderful dance. I have never been able to watch it without tears. That is the reason I bought the movie - so I could watch the movie without commercials and so I could, when feeling stressed or down, watch those scenes I love over again.
The movie is directed by Robert Redford and Brad Pitt plays the younger brother who leads a pretty wild life. Great movie!
Movie Review: Life lessons plus natural beauty
Summary: 5 Stars
I think anyone who ever contemplates life would enjoy this film but for me, being a flyfisher and lover of rivers, it really resonated someplace deep inside.
The performances are outstanding all around, especially the job Brad Pitt does. He really makes you believe he could and would jump right into being Paul, his character.
Of course it's not all fishing and scenery but a lot deeper than that. The irony and pain of the truth...that no matter how much you love your family members and no matter how hard you try to help them, sometimes they don't want the help but only want to feel the love that comes from it being offered.
So no matter which angle you view this film, it is at once visually beautiful, thoughtfully poignant and multi-faceted. It has much relevance to our everyday lives and I guess for me that quality is what a great film should possess.
Like the book, a classic...
Movie Review: Beautiful to look at, graceful to listen to
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazingly, A River Runs Through It stays dead-on true to the novella by Norman MacLean. Unlike so many books based on movies, they didn't change the ending, the characters, the feel, or even many of the words. Instead, the film makers only added to the story by setting it to the incredible scenery MacLean was reduced to describing in words, and by a great job of casting (no, Brad Pitt isn't just eye candy here).Of course, staying close to the original story wouldn't be any great bonus if the original story weren't something special. MacLean managed to write prose redolent of the mountains and streams of his past, creating something that's very much a 'guy' story yet still curiously sensitive in its view of a thoughtful young Norman and his wilder younger brother, in a family whose men bond over their casting rods. You don't have to fly-fish to enjoy this, but you may find yourself wanting to learn how afterwards.
Movie Review: Lyrical and luminous
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the all-time best movies ever made, this lyrical and nostalgic film made by multi-talented Robert Redford lives on a long time after the final credits have rolled. It's a screenplay written from a very short coming-of-age-in-Montana memoir by Norman MacLean. A River Runs Through It concerns the lives of two brothers (one steady and reliable, the other a bit of a wild scamp - that would be Brad Pitt). Their minister father is the quintessential early century patriarch who gives both sons the gift of the art, beauty, dance, mystery, and sacrament of fly fishing, a strong metaphor for Life itself.Trouble sets in when the younger boy gets into serious gambling/drinking, and the family bonds are tested in ways they never expected.
Beautiful screenplay, stellar acting, gorgeous cinematography. Just simply one of the best.