A heart wrenching masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (7 March 2006)

I am fifty one years old and had closed and compartmentalized my emotions to save them the disappointment of growing older. I doubted there was someone or something to crack my shell. This great piece of art, this perfect story, this excellent movie has rescued me. It is the finest movie and the highest expression of the storyteller's skills. There is so much emptiness filled to capacity with nothingness in movies, in literature and in art, but not this masterpiece. This movie exults in the fullness of what art can be. Unsaid, unspoken & uncluttered art, which deftly slices the heart and reveals the hidden agenda of love. It's no accident, but rather genius and compassion merged to create something eternal and plain. I can't resist saying this: It is the greatest love story ever filmed.
Can the pain of the heart be loved? Alone, alike in devastation we grew apart through love at last lost, forever longed, only held there in the clutch of cloth mementos - threads bound interwoven from the beginning.