The Snapper
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Movie Reviews of The Snapper
Movie Review: Fine movie , but why so many spoilers in other reviews?
Summary: 5 Stars
Love this movie, although I wondered why the Rabbite family was changed to the Curley family. Then again, the original author, Roddy Doyle, was involved in writing this screenplay, so I'm fine with the name changes.
What I really want to do is ping on the many reviewers who spoil the plot by revealing how Sharon's pregnancy occurred. Yes, the old guy who is the father of one of Sharon's friends did brag about it, but the movie does not intend for the viewer to know for sure that he is the culprit; he might have been just making an empty boast. Instead, the viewer has, or should have, Sharon's perspective. At the beginning, her da' asks who the father is. Sharon first says, truthfully, "I don't know." Since this sounds shocking, she quickly changes her story to "I'm not tellin'."
The point is that she herself does not know who the father is. She can't remember. In order to make the revelation, near the end, of how the pregnancy occurred actually matter to the viewer, the viewer must remain in doubt throughout much of the movie: 'Does she really know and is not telling? But wait - didn't she first say she didn't know? Is the old guy really the father? Was he just falsely bragging and has now gotten in trouble for it? If he is the baby's father, how could Sharon not remember him?'
This is the mindset the viewer should be allowed to have while seeing the movie for the first time. Reviewers should not be spelling out Sharon's secret, which is unknown - even to herself - for much of the movie.
Movie Review: An old fave
Summary: 5 Stars
As an accidental mother-to-be myself, this film has come 'round again as a favorite. It's so important to keep a sense of humor in difficult situations ;-)Movie Review: the snapper
Summary: 4 Stars
colm meaney and helen kellegher are so funny in this film. The family live in an overcrowded home in dublin suburbs. So much is going on all the time. To me this film is a perfect mix of serious and funny and the beauty of having your own copy is, if the Irish accent is difficult to understand you can watch it again and again.It's the best laugh and has aged well, still as funny as it ever was.Movie Review: "Well done, Sharon! Ya thick *****, ya!"
Summary: 5 Stars
I adored this movie; I've seen it probably 20 times over the past several years. Colm Meany is very funny as the head of a working class family, the Curleys. One day his eldest daughter Sharon announces to them that she is pregnant. Despite the attempts of her father and friends to learn who the father is, Sharon keeps mum, and eventually we find out why.
The strength of the Curleys is their ability to hold their heads up and laugh when the old gossips and biddies in the town (some of whom, I suspect have written some of these reviews) snub Sharon in the street. Sharon's parents aren't thrilled about the pregnancy at first, but, bottom line, she's their blood, and "**** the neighbors!"
To say this film isn't funny because of unwed pregancy and drinking/smoking during pregnancy is like saying "Catch-22" or "M*A*S*H" weren't funny because they were about war. But those films were only partly about war, and Sharon's pregnancy is just a part of the film.
This film is warm, unsentimental, and funny as hell. I love the Curleys, and you will too. Colm Meany is wonderful as always, and Tina Kellegher is wonderful as Sharon.
Movie Review: Character study of an Irish family in the 1980's
Summary: 3 Stars
The old adage about dropping a rock in a pond is true. When 20-year-old Sharon, (Tina Kellegher) gets pregnant, she doesn't want to tell anyone who the father is because he's also the father of Mary, one of her girlfriends and she'd gotten pregnant while drunk.
But, people will talk--and when George (Pat Laffan) brags to his mates what a 'splendid ride' Sharon was, Sharon's father Dessi (Colm Meany) gets word and the fight is on.
The effect of Sharon's pregnancy is like a very big rock being dropped in a very small pond in their small workingclass Dublin neighborhood. Dessi's fighting with the George to the point that Sharon makes up another father to get them to stop. Her girlfriend, who is the daughter of the father of her baby, won't talk to her, etc. There's some danger here--but not the tumult you'd expect from Dublin in the 1980's.
It was somewhat disturbing to me to see Sharon continue to drink even until the end stage of her pregnancy. Some likened this to 'TV reality' in that no one really believed the baby would have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or any kind of damage.
The real character development came from Dessi, the grandfather-to-be. It was startling to see him read a book about women's health and ask Sharon if she wanted him present at the baby's birth--he thought it could be important and had missed all six of his children being born. Of course, the most hilarious scene was when Dessi realized he could do more for his wife!
Probably the funniest moment was when Dessi (who I'd first met as Cmdr O'Brien from Star Trek) was yelling "Red Alert! Red Alert!" as he was hustling Sharon out of the house to have her child.
I loved "The Commitments" so I was somewhat biased for this film when I ordered it. I didn't feel like "The Snapper" lived up to its predecessor.
Also, the video quality of this disk was extremely poor on an HD TV. The dark portions of the film had dreadful artifacting problems.
Warnings:
You need to turn closed captioning on to understand some of the Irish dialogue
Sharon's near rape in the pub parking lot
Sharon continuing to drink while pregnant may strongly effect some viewers