Scent of a Woman
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Gabrielle Anwar, James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman Brand: NBC Universal DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 157 minutes DVD Release Date: 1998-04-29 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Universal Studios |
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Movie Reviews of Scent of a Woman
Movie Review: 4 out of 4 stars
Summary: 1 Stars
4 out of 4 stars. The overwhelming character trait of Colonel Frank Slade (Pacino) is that he desperately wants to believe in the goodness of human nature again. He wants it so bad, in fact, the he is desperately insecure that he will find out that it isn't true. He doesn't want to be disappointed. So he is mean to everyone. He doesn't want to give people a chance to let him down. If someone is nice to him, his attitude is, "Don't toy with my emotions." But along comes student Charlie Simms, who is simply, a good guy. Slade sits in almost disbelief when he learns Charlie is from the Pacific-Northwest instead of the big-shot East Coast. To Slade, Simms is a Rockwellian character. Slade has stopped believing that people like this even exist. In their first meeting, Slade alternates between being touched by Simms' story, and becoming angry, believing that this is an act and Simms is making a fool out of him. For Frank, it is within days of being too late. He is plannning to commit suicide. It will take a great deal of emotional adventure for Charlie to pull him back from the brink of death. (Ironically, though, their adventures consist of Frank teaching Charlie how to live.) The main power of the movie is that all this happens in a single weekend. A weekend is a not a long period of time, and the characters are not even the same people they were when it started. It gives the movie a perceived density. It is is a great movie, but perhaps does not belong in the category of the greatest movies, because of its contrived Dead Poets Society bookends. They could be edited down to almost nothing, and the movie would be only the better for it. The scene where Frank saves Charlie from expulsion might be needed, but it is done as a hollywood cliche. In fact, it falls into the worst of the bad-ending categories: The slow clap (or at least a form of it). (Also, Pacino's "I'll take a flame-thrower to this is place" is not needed. Apparently, he just feels the need to work a line like that into all of his movies. )