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Movie Reviews of The End of the Affair
Movie Review: The End of the Affair
Summary: 5 Stars
A great story of love lost, and the belief in God found. As in the Lord of the Rings, some parts of the book had to be changed for the story to work in a movie format (I think the book is one of the best stories ever written). But the movie still is great. Most of the reviews missed a couple of the key points in the movie.
1. The story is about Sarah not really believing in God until Bendrix is believed to be killed. She prays to God that she would give up Bendrix for the mircacle of him living. When he comes up, that is her proof that God exists.
2. There is a subplot of a return back to God by Sarah and her desire for a Catholic burial. This doesn't work as well in the movie because of a change in the plot from the book (read the book and you will understand).
3. Bendrix, another unbeliever, finally believes in God, because there is no way such hatred of his could exist unless God really took away his love.
All this and more wrapped up in great story of love and betrayal.
If you loved the movie, read the book; you'll love the book more.
If you didn't understand the movie, read the book; you will appreciate the movie once you understand some of the subtle points.
If you hated the move, go watch Gigli.
Movie Review: Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is beautiful and tormenting and left me utterly drained after I watched it, but I could watch it over and over again. I would recommend this movie to anyone who wishes to have every emotion touched when they watch a movie.The movie is not about sex, it is about love, passion and desire. The lovers are not together beacuse they are horny, they are together because they adore eachother. Sarah does not leave her husband because of middle class values, and it's a very English sort of thing. There are many sutbleties that Americans may not understand. Just because miracles are attributed to Sarah in the film does not neccesitate her being morally good. Sarah is very weak, and that's part of the conflict. But read the bible and look over the lives of saints, God goes not usually choose already saintly people to do His work, those sorts of people don't need His salvation as much as the weak and tormented do.
Please don't mistake this movie for a film about aduterous affair, but about morality and inner conflict. Yes you have to pay attention and yes you have to think, but you will be very well rewarded when you see this film.
Movie Review: Not Really About An Affair!
Summary: 5 Stars
Although I love both lead actors in this film, Fiennes and Moore, I wasn't expecting to like the movie that much. After all, who wants to watch some dreary WWII affair stumble to an end for 2 hours? Well, much to my suprise that is not what the movie is really about at all! The movie is about the strength of religion and faith, about making bargains with God, especially a Catholic God. It is about how love, betrayal and infidelity can get caught on the shoals of bargains with God. I should have suspected this because Graham Greene wrote the novel and he was always predominantly concerned about his Catholicism. Probably no better screenwriter/director could have chosen this for his own adaptation: Irish Catholic Neil Jordan of "The Crying Game" fame. It is a beautiful but sad movie and Fiennes and Moore shine throughout it. I'd be tempted to say it's their best work but then I start thinking of their other work, all of which is excellent too. We can only hope that they both have really long careers in film.Movie Review: the end of the affair
Summary: 5 Stars
it was kind of strange. the movie was so beautiful, so deep, so sensitive, that i started to cry without control. when it ended, i had to run to the ladies room to continue crying, because i just couldn't stop. it moved me. it touched strings from my soul i didn't know i had. for a moment it was like if my body doesn't belong to me; my feelings were acting outside of me, in a non-voluntary way. i'm in love with ralph fiennes. i saw "the english patient" eight times. i saw "the end of the affaire" five times, and all because of him. for me, he is the greatest actor of the decade, the deepest, the most empathetic with women's feelings. of course moore and rea are great too, but fiennes is just adorable y powerful. the film is a poem, an anthem to love, to passion and a song, a magnificent song to the inner feelings each one of us have deep inside, awaken by the delicated music of nyman, the dedication of jordan and the commitment of the cast.Movie Review: A new classic of the cinema
Summary: 5 Stars
"The end of the affair" again carves in relief to Neil Jordan as one of the supreme directors in the world. His bull-eye approach about and around the well known autobiographical depiction of Graham Greene, in which an intense love affair will arouse a profound sentiment between these two out of the law lovers in the midst of the bloody WW2.
The drama and visual style in certain dramatic sequences reminds me to David Lean's "Brief encounter". On the other hand, Julianne Moore had never been so glamorous, alluring and passionate like in this case, his partner Ralph Fiennes, shows there was an immediate chemistry as well as the cheated husband the veteran actor Stephen Rea. But the amazing direction and secure hand of Jordan avoided this film was far to strand and fall in commonplaces thanks his admirable gifts as director.
A supreme film that must be regarded as a new classic of the cinema. Nor more neither less.