Beautiful, absolutely beautiful

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2000)

I only just saw this a few weeks ago, and it changed my life forever! What a beautifully crafted film. The screenplay, the direction, the acting, all absolutely flawless, this film DESERVED the awards it received.
What struck me the most about this film, was its imagery. It was both gentle yet riveting and confronting. The leitmotif of red throughout signifying love and passion, while at the same time danger, foreboding and death. The way Sam Mendes brings these elements together all into the one color, and the repeated use of the rose symbol as a classic icon of love, with the delicate petals, but the sharp thorns, indicating Angela's beauty, but her ugliness inside.
This film changed my life, and made me think of life the way Ricky sees it. Whether there's love, laughter, pain or death, in one way or another, it is beautiful. This film is all of those things, but especially beautiful. 10/10.