The Sleeping Dictionary
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Movie Reviews of The Sleeping Dictionary
Movie Review: THIS MOVIE IS G-G-GREAT!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
i watched this movie because i heard about it from one of hugh
dancy's web sites and i wanted to see it and when i did i loved it. it's the most romantic movie i ever seen sense the blue lagoon. hugh dancy was amazing in it as john and jessica alba wasn't bad either. my favorite part is when john (hugh dancy)and
jessica alba dances at the end of the movie it was so romantic, i wish i had that kind of romance. every woman should want to see this movie especially for hugh dancy he's wonderful.
Movie Review: Lovely Movie..I recommend.
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this movie because the premise seemed promising, and also quite credible Movie Review: So-so
Summary: 3 Stars
I wanted to see this movie because the plot seemed pretty interesting: a young Englishman in a foreign country who falls in love with a local native girl. The scenery is goregous but the storyline is where it fails. Some of the dialogue in the movie just isn't believable. Ex: when the Englishman's wife realizes that he still loves his 'sleeping dictionary' and not her, she eagerly tells him to follow her, even though she herself is pregnant with his child. Right, like that would happen. A more realistic story would have had her committing suicide out of heartbreak. Anyway the casting is fine, it's just that the acting could have been better, particuarly on Alba's part. I think it's safe to say that the reason for her popularity is largely based on her looks, but we will have to wait and see how she improves in the future.Movie Review: Very Good Love Story
Summary: 5 Stars
I had never heard of this movie and my mother had bought it a couple of months back, she told me to watch it because it was good. Normally I don't agree with her choices of movies, and I'm not that fond of love stories but since it had Jessica Alba in it I gave it a chance. Needless to say I was really pleased with it. The setting drew me in, it was beautiful. The story line was written extremely well for a direct to DVD movie and the acting supurb. While watching it I went through all the emotions, happy, angry, sad, then happy again. If you haven't watched it please do you will not be disappointed.Movie Review: Visually entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
In the not-so-distant past, young British men, fresh out of university, were sent to outposts of the Empire to practice their administrative skills on one of the many races subjugated by the British at the time. This film follows young John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) as he arrives in Sarawak (now part of Malaysia) in 1936 for his stint - he is idealistic, and full of ideas for educating and civilising the primitives. He is startled to be met by a tattooed native who speaks perfect English, and who introduces himself as Belansei (Eugene Salleh). Belansei takes him upriver, where he meets Henry Bullard (Bob Hoskins), who is governor of the district. Truscott is assigned a hut, a cook (who cooks well, but drinks heavily), and, to his surprise, a "sleeping dictionary". A sleeping dictionary, he is informed, is a young woman who will sleep with him and teach him the local language. Truscott is shocked, and upset, although he feels very attracted to Selima (Jessica Alba). He refuses to sleep with her, but offers to learn the language from her. Bullard is angry, because he is rocking the boat and refusing to follow tradition, even though this is the way things have been done for centuries.
Truscott yields to propinquity, however, and falls in love with Selima, and she with him. This love is deepened when they experience danger together. He wants to marry her, but this is forbidden by British traditions, and all manner of retribution will fall upon them should they persist. Instead, Bullard's wife, the manipulative Aggie (Brenda Blethyn), pushes him to marry her daughter Cecilia (Emily Mortimer, who plays this role in unflattering make-up so she looks plain). This doesn't make the other young British administrator, Neville Shipperly (played with superb chinless sleaze by Noah Taylor) at all happy, for he had designs upon Cecilia for himself.
Jessica Alba's acting skills are fairly limited (not that she's required to do much here), and easily surpassed by Hugh Dancy, who does a superb job of English prig on arrival, gradually learning that the Iban, and others, are people too.
This film was shot in Malaysia, and the river and jungle scenery is really quite lovely.
The love story is nicely told, set among the ugliness of British colonialism.