Harrison's Flowers
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In Theaters : 24 January, 2001 |
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Harrison's Flowers Customer Reviews
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Oddly this movie includes some of the best acting and some of the worst I've seen recently. Adrian Brody as a hard-nosed photographer in a theater of war is really compelling; meanwhile, Andie MacDowell, handsome as ever but no more talented, delivers every line in a disconcertingly wooden way.
This disjunction somehow seems apropos of the film's gripping and (to my eye) realistic portrayal of the scene of war: gray, monotonous, punctuated by horrifying violence. In some of the shots inside the car, the dull rhythm of the windshield wipers scraping across the window of the grimy TV van attempting to nose its way further into the war zone becomes like the tell-tale heart. I about jumped out of my skin when they were shot at!
The movie, in short, has some astonishingly good moments, especially in the war scenes. The male actors are really impressive, though David Strathairn is assigned more than even he can deliver when he must remain catatonic for over a year (I think there is a Shirley Temple movie with a similar hospital scene in which a bandaged war veteran groans "Sarah, Sarah" -- A Little Princess?). Sentimentalized tripe. At the same time, the film is unblinking in its unsentimentalized portrayal of war. Contradictions... contradictions. Still, worth watching. |
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