A Simple Twist of Fate
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Movie Reviews of A Simple Twist of Fate
Movie Review: Great product!
Summary: 5 Stars
The video is a great product and the service was fast! I will buy from them again and again.Movie Review: A good movie, but a slow start.
Summary: 4 Stars
What they fail to fully explain at the end is the fact that, earlier in the movie, Mr. Newman says that he has no idea what happened to his missing brother, or where he might be. The place where the police found his brother's skeletal remains is the very same site where Mr. Newman, (Mathilda's biological father),was developing for a man made lake or something. He had total control over this land as its owner, and the discovery of his brother's remains proved that, once again, he was nothing but a liar who would say and do anything to further his political career. He knew that his brother had been killed, and since a dead brother would've ruined him politically, he disposed of the body by burying it on his own property, not thinking that years later, that very site was going to be dug up for construction. Instead of alerting the authorities about his dead brother and the whereabouts of Michael McCann's stolen gold, he tried to play the innocent victim who was just as baffled about his brother's disappearence as everyone else. That's why the judge let Mathilda stay with her "Dad", instead of the sperm donor.
All in all, the movie was good, although the first 30 minutes are pretty slow. I loved Alyssa and Alana, the two sisters who portrayed Mathilda in the movie. As far as the unexplained ending, it's there, but they leave you to put the pieces together yourself.
Movie Review: A decent take-off on a classic
Summary: 4 Stars
To Rana Blue: This movie is a take off on George Elliot's masterpice, Silas Marner. In that book the girl decides for herself that she will stay with her father rather than go to her biological father's home, but that girl is 16 and there is no custody battle in court (the story is set in England in the 1800s). However, in that story, as in this one, the brother steals the gold and then falls in to the lake and drowns. Mr. Newland didn't remember that he had thrown his brother into the lake because he didn't do it. Just as Matlida could have fallen in when she was a toddler, the brother -- drunk, in the dark and having just left a girl to die in his car -- left McCann's home and stumbled over the cliff. Do you not think a man would remember where he illegally buried his dead brother? The truth is, he didn't know that his brother was dead, and he was probably happy to be rid of him because the brother was the only adult alive who knew the truth about the baby, so he didn't bother to search for him. And the other truth is that the judge let Matilda stay with McCann because he was her father, and once he got his money back and all things were equal between the two men, there was no question as to where Matlida belonged.Movie Review: Explanation for the ending
Summary: 4 Stars
The explanation is that in finding the long lost gold, he now has the means to care for his child, which was one of the primary reasons the judge was ruling against him - no visible means of support.Movie Review: mixed feelings
Summary: 3 Stars
SPOILER ALERT ...
As an adoptive parent myself, I have some mixed feelings about this movie. On one hand, it lovingly portrays the relationship between a single adoptive father and his daughter. Steve Martin's humor and gentleness, as well as an underlying sadness, permeate the role he plays. I love seeing the interactions between him and his daughter as she grows up. On the other hand, the stereotypical drama in the last half of the movie - custody battles, courtroom dramas, a biological parent who tries to steal away the child he abandoned - damage the movie's credibility for me. Also, I hated the constant use of the outdated and offensive words "real father" whenever anyone referred to the child's biological father. The original classic and the moral of that story is lost - the love of the daughter for her father overcomes class differences. The moral of this story instead seems to be that of "money wins" - that is, the adoptive father gets to keep his daughter as soon as he can prove that he has the money to do so. I thought the ending cheapened the movie.