Movie Reviews for Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist

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Movie Reviews of Gorillas in the Mist

Movie Review: Wonderful acting by Sigourney Weaver
Summary: 4 Stars

Sometimes you see a movie with such great acting in it, you can never forget it. I can't imagine anyone playing Dian Fossey other than Sigourney; throughout the whole movie, you can feel her rage, her loneliness, her determination. I also think this movie did a good job in not making Dian look like an angel, because as devoted as she was, she had her flaws. Years of isolation in the remote mountains of Africa hardened her. Sometimes I think it would have been better if instead of endlessly fighting with the hunters, she had changed her approach and helped give them job oppurtunities so they had other ways to make money besides hunting. However, despite her flaws, Dian Fossey still deserves to be recognized and remembered for her selfless efforts to protect gorillas. This movie does just that.

Movie Review: interesting!!!
Summary: 4 Stars

I have always like this movie. To watch how this lady tried so hard to save the gorillas seemed to hit close to home for me because i felt like i knew this lady, Diane Fossey. It may seem hard to believe, but it's true. My eldest brother was hit by a car when he was 13 years old, and was paralized from the waist down, and when he was in hospital in Louisville, ky, she taught him the craft of leather making, and he earned his living by doing this. I think it's really sad that they never knew who killed her.

Movie Review: a great film i watched when i was young
Summary: 4 Stars

i dont think this held up to my childhood expectations. this film got me interested in wildlife as a child and i think it is a good film for anyoone interested in wildlife conservation.

Movie Review: Idealized portrait of a flawed woman
Summary: 3 Stars

This was a phenomenal movie, no question about that. Sigorney Weaver did a bang up job as Dian Fossey and showed us a lush landscape of Africa. We were also introduced to the Fossey cause of preserving the endangered mountain gorilla and wildlife, as well as the problems with poaching. What we were not shown in true light was the real woman Dian Fossey was, and had they not glossed over certain things and made this movie Hollywood she might not have been so appealing to the general public.

Dian Fossey, as was portrayed as the movie unfolded, was a physical therapist from California who became fascinated with the continent of Africa and the gorillas of Rwanda. Having little to no training in anthropology and animal behavior but getting the ok from a prominent anthropologist, Dr. Leaky, Dian Fossey embarked on what would become her life's work: to study and care for the gorilla.

Dian loved being in Africa and enjoyed her work with the gorillas, there is no doubt about that, but had the general public read about other aspects of her residence there they would not have found her very appealing. As time went on she became more and more paranoid and vicious. The lifestyle of living on a secuded mountaintop surrounded with your only companions being upper primates other than humans does not make for the most socially well adjusted person. Although the relationship she had in the movie was otherwise happy, Dian had many affairs with married men (and even with Dr. Leaky himself) which would leave her devistated and rejected. She had affairs with research fellows, tourists, cameramen, and just about anyone who came to her camp. As the affairs would end, she would become more bitter, but because she was lonely she would start others again with the next unavailable. It was a vicious cycle. She also was very hung up on a research assistant who was half her age, then once he took up with another woman she filled her journals with jealous entries

Dian began to see the territory as hers, and it certainly wasn't as she was a guest in their country. Many were driven away, others quit on her because they couldn't stand being around her temper tantrums and irrational behavior. A research fellowship couple by name of Webster later wrote an account of Dian not actually spending as much time with the gorilla troups as she implied because she was passed out drunk most of the time. She shunned the government officials who tried to open the area more towards tourism and created many enemies within the higher ups. Poaching had always been a problem, and when her beloved Digit was killed by the poachers I'm sure that devistated her. She was naturally vicious towards poachers, but had also taken it upon herself to take out vigalante justice on them, which was not her official decission to make. She was petty, selfish and tyranical who had high standards that even she did not live up to.

Dian Fossey could have been killed by any number of people, recent theories have now pointed to a connection between her murder and the Rwandan ethnic cleansing from 1994. Who knows? If she were alive today, she would probably say she was the best and the worst thing ever to happen to the species. But she was far from a martyr for these creatures.