Very Powerful

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2000)

(SLIGHT SPOILER AHEAD) This movie is very different from any film I have ever seen. It is so blunt, even exaggerated in a powerfully positive way. The acting is first rate, and the script and direction contain so many powerful elements. Some viewers may find the power of this film unsettling, with family disfunction present as a central motif throughout the film, but such is the amazing part of this movie. In watching it, I was going to rate it as a 9/10 until the last scene, after the death, where the film alternately shows scenes from childhood and various characters' reactions to the gunshot. And then there was the last line of the movie...a powerful statement which transformed it from a "9" to a strong "10".