Excellent movie

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2003)

I enjoyed this movie. In reading some of the external reviews for this movie there seems to be universal praise for Renee Zellweger's performance and I would agree. There also seems to be some disappointment in the fact that the two main stars are separated throughout the movie and in this I disagree. Whereas the detractors seem upset that the movie was supposed to be a great love story, I never took it for that. It was true that the two main protangonists are infatuated with each other in the beginning, how can that be mistaken for love. However, each becomes the symbol to the other of the way they want the world to be and not the daily horror the war has made it. It is clear from the beginning that Inman's home coming is going to be long delayed, and that the story is each protagonists' reaction to the war and how they managed to survived it.