An Insert from Life

Rating: 10/10 (7 April 2000)

A movie which depicts many levels of a person's life in certain ages and also in a certain country. But, most of it is quite applicable outside the US as well, for people's problems are similar in Europe and other euro-originated civilization continents too. It would be worthless trying to tell its story because it is a multi level one, dealing at the same time with midd-life crises, marriage problems, teenage problems, homosexuality, drugs, joy, lack of joy, ugliness and beauty. I found many people being hard in their comments on many cliches of the movie, but those cliches seem to be there very intentionally and with a strong purpose of unmasking their common and every day use by most of us. People commented that this movie tells us what we already know, but if so, why do we keep going so...? I can not help to note that all the spoilers and hard comments came from the United States and I wonder whether that is a sign that this movie has hit the nerve of the society which it primarily depicts. If so, the praise-worthy is the decision to award it with five Academy Awards, for it means that many wouldn't run away from scary phenomena occuring more and more, but would instead, face them and think about them and, as it's been already said, unmask them in order to overcome them. That is an integral and improving part of life and the reason why this movie does not only resemble life closely, but is rather an insert from a real life.