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Movie Reviews of Wit
Movie Review: Sad but wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols team up to bring us a heart-wrenching adaptation of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Emma stars as Vivian Bearing ("B-E-A-R-I-N-G")--a scholar and professor of the metaphysical poetry of John Donne--who is going through chemotherapy ("the full dose") for Stage 4 metastatic ovarian cancer ("there is no Stage 5"). Emma is absolutely believable in this tough role. She brings the sickness to life while making us sympathetic towards an unsympathetic (and "uncompromising") woman. I bought it all the way. Also of note are Audra McDonald as Nurse Susie, and Jonathan M. Woodward as Jason, a former student of Vivian's who is now her doctor.
Nichols and Thompson adapted the screenplay (teleplay?) and expanded the setting, making it a fuller experience. As this was made for HBO, they were not tied down by expectations of box-office success and were thus able to create the true film that needed to be made. This is one of those rare films that is perfect in every way.
Movie Review: The Soul of Wit
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is truly exceptional, Emma Thompson absolutely shines giving Wit just enough soul. I must admit I adore Ms. Thompson, but even if I had never any other performance, I could not have been more captivated. Mike Nichols has outdone himself again. I loved many things about this movie, but nothing more so than when you find yourself alone in intimate conversations with this woman facing death, her life's study, at her bedside. Mr. Nichols allows and invites the audience inside this incredible story. The way past, present, an inevitable events rely upon one another, is so evident when scences played out years ago on stages miles away, find their way into the cancer unit to be played out again with a lovely perpective. I found this film touching, moving, and funny. Wit is one of the best films ever made, and the fact that I saw its premiere on my comfy sofa instead of in a theater full of people made it none the less amazing. It is anything but "soporific".Movie Review: Brilliance on all sides
Summary: 5 Stars
It seems to me that certain matters can be understood, that is to say, experienced at arms length back here where it's safe, only with art. If your loved one dies of a terrible progressive illness, you know the experience intimately. Yet understanding may take awhile, if it ever comes. If you yourself are desperately ill, you live in a cocoon of pain, embarrassment, fear and anger. You experience this only to the degree your mental capacity remains unimpaired. Understanding your experience may be a low priority. Yet, this film, like the ennui of Waiting for Godot, or the visual assault of Jackson Pollack, the cynicism of Lolita, or the anguish of Mahler's last adagio, sends us flying - transported to a place where we have, finally, an understanding, a closure. This film is a quiet little diamond - you can look at it from any angle and find not suffering, not degradation, but transcendent light. The greatest art shows us how rich life can be.Movie Review: Close to Heart
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderfully put together movie by HBO starring the exeptional Emma Thompson. I'm not going to get into the specifics of the movie, but I would like to point out that I know that there are people who were turned off by the Professors snobbish behavior. But that's what makes the movie that much more interesting, the fact that Cancer does not discriminate! Whether you're rich, poor, black, white, intellectual or mentally disabled it can affect you.
All that said, my wife myself and son watched this movie and were going thru the same things that are in the movie regarding the hospitals care, nurses, doctors etc. We all cried watching this movie! And it was shocking just how realistic the movie is, which made it all the more emotional draining. My wife passed from stage IV ovarian cancer on Aug 1, 2001. This movie was ironically put on DVD Sept 11, 2001. I just received the strength to purchase it!
Movie Review: Cancer doesn't care who you are
Summary: 5 Stars
This is essentially a story about a woman who used intellect to shield her from all she found unpleasnt--but cancer found a chink in the wall. Faced with impossible ovarian cancer, Vivian Bearing (an OUTSTANDING performance by Thompson) reevaluates every aspect of her life as she comes to terms with the fact that her cancer woes are no different than they would have been if she were very poor and uneducated--if you watch the hospital scences carefully, there are motley groups of "patients" around to emphasize this point. Her wit and dry humor is tempered with the brutal portrayals of a cancer patient's reality. I cried throughout the latter half of this film because I lost my own mother to cancer just 5 months ago. Cancer is hell, and one can't reach any other conclusion after watching this film. A word of advice: don't expect it to comfort anyone who is facing cancer. It won't do the trick.