The Human Stain
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Movie Reviews of The Human Stain
Movie Review: Like celery you have to have an aquired taste for this ...
Summary: 5 Stars
... strange and haunting picture .... actually I would kind of consider it three seperate little movies ... The first part Anthony H as the big town college professor moved into a small town ... the second part Anthony H meets trailer trashy Nicole Kidman and falls in love agian ... and finally the third adventure part is the introduction of Ed Harris as Nicole's love crazed violent husband ....
The movie kind of clunks along as the viewer watches the characters develop and the writer slaps us in the face with the big 'surprise' that Anthony Hopkins is actually born a Southern black ... HMMMM .. that was a stretch .... but then again the acting of this movie is so great I can overlook all the politically correct warts .....
So like celery ... if you enjoy charater studies then this is the movie for you .... so much so that friends who were watching the movie with me didn't even believe it was Nicole Kidman on the screen .... Fabulous or what
Movie Review: The inefabble human intolerance!
Summary: 5 Stars
Four different arists converge simutaneously in that artistic work. The hidden sequel of the racism who affectes the internal life of a man of jew ascencendence who simply refuses to accept his black ascendence. He will lead this lie until his final days. And that's by itself a big problem.
In the other hand the term spooky will mean for him a true whirlwind when he makes a simple ironic joke in the middle of a Literature Cathedra Magister Class.
Third, the presence of a homeless girl who refuses to be the secret lover of his abusing father after her mother gets the divorce.
And finally the troubled mind of a Vietnam veteran who has serious internal wounds.
Four traumas that will intersect giving by result and admirable, mature and terrific reflection about the human nature and how Einstein had all the reason when he stated it was much easier to destroy an atom instead a prejuice.
Fine acting and splendid photograph.
Movie Review: The Human Stain
Summary: 5 Stars
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk, a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. If you are into light-hearted escapist movie, this isn't for you. The plot is intriguing, deep and difficult. I like these kinds of movies and this one is one of the best in class.
Movie Review: Oh, Mr. Hopkins, we'll never have enough of you...
Summary: 5 Stars
Another overwhelming performance by one of the great ones. It must be a real challenge to work with Mr. Hopkins without developing an inferiority complex. He just takes over everything with such a force.
Thad said, every actor performs brilliantly. No weaknesses detected.
So, I liked the film, it was inspiring, enlightening, awesome.
The thing I did not like? To see useless cigarette smoking in the movie. This type of thing should be criticized over and over. Mr. Hopkins does not smoke, but the two female leads do so. It does not fit. It's instrusive and superflous and serves only as unnecessary advertisement for the tobacco cartel which should be banned from this planet.
Movie Review: Underrated and Powerful
Summary: 5 Stars
Just when you think the critics are starting to get it right, they get it wrong again. That's what happened to this film. People stayed away in droves from this well done and thoughtful film by a director with a subtle touch that escapes most of our video age movie going public. Anthony Hopkins, Gary Sinise, and Nicole Kidman give real performances that will challenge and hopefully enrage some of you into seeing the dangers of social convention and why we let bad things happen. This is a movie for people who ask questions, not just for those who feel they have all the answers.