Yes, yes, I know, it's an old movie of fashion. Meaning that most people who saw it recently only saw it because of the Oscars it raked in. And the Oscars are over, and I'm a late bandwagon rider.
My roommates who saw it with me definitely liked the movie a lot more than I did. I mean, it was a decent movie, with decent shock values and decent plot developments and decent messages. The music is pretty upbeat. But for me, something is just missing.
I read EW (that's Entertainment Weekly for you, miss, or mister, or whatever you are) less and less now, but I did read that the regular columnist (was it Mark? I think so) did not like the movie 100% either. I mean, it won 8 Oscars so something must be working right, but it just didn't hit me the way I expected it to. Maybe it's a case of expectations built up too high.
One of the reasons was ... everything worked out too well. For sure, it wasn't a complete happy ending, there is quite a bit of bittersweet in it, but it's still pretty much a fairy tale and I never liked fairy tales. They just don't happen in real life, so giving people false hope only makes the reality harsher.
I also don't believe in incorruptible people. Everyone has a price, and it of course doesn't have to be money, but everyone has a bottom line for which they will do absolutely anything. Maybe I'm too cynical (okay, I know I am too cynical), but I would rather be pleasantly surprised by a lovelier world than being too idealistic and then finding out the world is actually a dark place.
The casting is actually surprisingly good. The child actors who portray the characters in childhood and the teenage ones and the adult ones have a clear resemblance.
So overall, it was a pretty great movie. Worthy of 8 Oscars though? Perhaps not.
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