Sophie's Choice
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Movie Reviews of Sophie's Choice
Movie Review: Meryl Streep has never been best!
Summary: 5 Stars
You may consider from now to Meryl Streep as one of the twenty best actress of the XX century . Her magnetism is so powerful in every performance she makes than it is impossible to ignore her.
Nevertheless her last performances in screen have been extremely geometric meticulous cold and apollinean without that expresivity we can watch in this film .
She was in the peak of her powers . And in fact she supports the film like at least in a 95% .
The script was brilliant writen in the best european style . Resource economy , but with fine dialogues and excellent edition and superb photography .
Kevin Kline made the best acting of all his career in the role of this disturbed man .
The film is told in off for Sophie herself . Her hell stage in the concentration camp . Thanks to her domain of the german language she could survive .
But after the horror has gone , she can not avoid to remake her emotional life . In this sense the dramatic parallel runs equal with the pawnbroker , since the memory and its multiple awful images simply can not be erased , even the happiness had been to few steps from her .
The film was carefully filmed with masterful direction .
Superb and consider this work and Schindler list as the supremes american films focusing this painful theme!
Movie Review: Watch for the greatest performance in the history of cinema
Summary: 5 Stars
Meryl Streep's performance has been so hyped over the years that I thought there was no way it could live up to the expectations I had set; for once the hype was totally correct. As far as I'm concerned, there is Meryl Streep as Sophie, and then there's every other performance. She is simply in a different league. Everyone talks about the "choice," which was riveting, but the real treat is watching a master of her craft take your breath away with every scene she's in (and she's in 95% of it). Words just do not do justice to her performance, which has to go down as the greatest for an actress in history. You simply cannot take your eyes off of her, and it almost seems super human the level of talent she brings: It's not just the fluent German, Polish, and perfect broken English; it's the nuances she brings to the role. I cannot say enough about it. When Premiere magazine named this the third greatest performance in the history of cinema, they got it absolutely right (the highest female performance on the list).
The movie does have its flaws: It's a bit slow in parts, and Kevin Kline and Peter McNichol's stories seem like tangents due to the absolute magnetism that Streep brings to the role.
I would imagine that this is required viewing for any acting class.
Movie Review: Life as an ordeal of traumas
Summary: 5 Stars
Sophie's Choice is a very powerful story of a woman whose strength did not desert her in imaginably some of the most traumatic moments in a person's life. Whether it was her abysmal life in German concentration camps or her Brooklyn existence with her schizophrenic boyfriend, Sophie did not have much to fall back up on with the exception of her inner core - a core that was so solid that it did not falter, did not waver, did not even flinch as she lost everything that a human heart deems precious. In the end she appears calm and poised even after having lost what every one holds dearest to heart - life.
In her Academy winning performance, Meryl Streep is peerless. Arguably it is one of the most powerful and yet sublime performances ever - an incredibly realistic portrayal of a character whose numerous shades of existence are impossibly difficult to depict. Streep delivers what easily can contend for an Academy among Academy winners. Other actors, the direction, the script and the milieu are all flawless but this movie belongs to Streep who stands head and shoulders above the rest in a performance bound to leave an indelible impact on the audience.
Movie Review: Streep's best performance
Summary: 5 Stars
there is always that one performance in a actors career thats defined as there best and for the great Meryl Streep, her role as Holocaust survivor Sophie brilliantly conveys a person of heartbreak, riddled with guilt, and just so volnerable. pulling of a flawless polish accent, Streep plays Sophie, a polish immagrent who is haunted by her horrible past in WWII during the Holocaust and her stay at a concentration camp. Kevin Kline plays her temptatious lover Nathan and Peter MacNicol is Stingo, the man who Sophie and Nathan befriend. as Stingo becomes more involved in there life, he learns of Sophie's past and the horrible decision she had to make. Kline and MacNicole both provide excellent buffers as to not be outshined by Meryl Streep. the other great thing about this film is the cinamatography, it shifts very nicley from the comforts of Broklyn to the horrors of Europe. there are many great Holocaust films but Sophie's choice is definently at the top three along with Schindler's List and The Pianist. if you want to see a truley powerful film that will leave you heartbroken at the end then Sophie's Choice is the filmMovie Review: What is Evil?
Summary: 5 Stars
Caught forever in an existential moment, Meryl Streep's portrayal of the aftereffects of Auschwitz is transfixing. Sophie is the guilt-ridden survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, and Streep's remarkable work brings her leaping off the screen into the hearts and minds of the watcher. This is a complex film which plays the outer tragedy of Sophie's present life against the inner tragedy of the evil she faced during the war.As the story of Sophie's devastating past unfolds in flashbacks Streep faces choice after choice in her present life. Each seems to eat away at her life. Peter MacNicol and Kevin Kline unite to give performances that that carefully balance Streep's, creating an intense overall effect that cannot be described easily,
The film's emotional and intellectual content make is a bit too lengthy and stagy, but the lulls set the stage for the emotional crises. This is a heart rending story that will not be everyone's cup of tea, but Streep well deserves the Academy Award she got for this film, which was also nominated for best screenplay and best cinematography.