The Ice Storm
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Movie Reviews of The Ice Storm
Movie Review: Why things may be wrong now.
Summary: 5 Stars
If you grew up in the 70s as I did, this film presents camera shots of your past, providing you were a white, middle class suburban. Products of 50s parents, these 70s people struggled for sexual freedom but with the birth of their children, found themselves confused as to the direction of that freedom now that they are role models (and their children are copying their behaviors.) It provides one reason why the 90s produced parents detached from their children: no wives waiting for their husbands at the end of a workday and sending their kids off with fresh lunches in the morning. The ice storm represents both the physical storm in the film and the one that stifles everyone's emotions.Movie Review: You should not miss this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you wish to see a movie that is subtle, exploring, intriguing, and heart-felt, you should not miss this one. There are a few people comparing it with American Beauty. I also like American Beauty. However, they seem very different to me. American Beauty is like a modern woman that is beautiful, intelligent, engaging and passionate. And the Ice Storm has something that is beyond all that. Its scent lingers around while the owner's long gone. American Beauty shocks you. The Ice Storm breaks your heart. I think both of them are good. However, the Ice Storm is definitely a masterpiece that has been neglected in our current past but will be honored and remembered in the future.Movie Review: A dark portrait of American family life in the 1970's
Summary: 5 Stars
In a movie jam-packed full of actors who have gone on to acclaim, director Ang Lee presents a dark winter in the suburbs during an ice storm. The movie perfectly captures the look and feel of the 1970s-even the pacing seems completely appropriate. The characters are in the middle of a sexual revolution-married men and women are having clandestine and unfulfilling liaisons, teenagers are experimenting, and the hipsters in the neighborhood are holding a wife-swapping "key party." All the action comes to a head during a tragic and dangerous ice storm. This is a dark drama and a brilliant commentary on the human condition.Movie Review: It's like American Beauty but good
Summary: 5 Stars
I didn't grow up the 70's, but the characters in this film are as true to real life as today, and more believable than so many other movies about suburbia and the destruction of families, etc. Kevin Kline's character reminds me of Kevin Spacey's dilemma in American Beauty, but Kline thinks and acts like someone in his position really would. He keeps it just as interesting as Spaceys, without completely going insane. I think I liked this movie so much better than American Beauty because Ang Lee doesn't need to sensationalize what's obvious, but still keeps it extremely gripping the whole time.Movie Review: Take that 1970's!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Ice Storm is one of the all time great films in the past 25 years if not 50.
The director Ang Lee is easily one of the best Hollywood directors working today. Lee is special because he gets the most of out of his actors. The performances here are stirring and mesmerizing.
This film teases you and then slaps you upside down by it's stirring climax. Quite simply, one of the best endings ever!