cinema paradiso

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2012)

What can I say, what has'nt been said here already. Only to read these reviews here gives an example of how many layers and levels this movie has. Through different reviews there are so many different focus-points, approaches etc. And most of them fits perfectly with this masterpiece.
I just cite some of them - considering every single on of them absolutely true: - This is a man with no name film. He is an old fashioned (action) hero. - intelligent adrenaline - For starters, let's talk about the pace of the film. Most may call it slow, whereas i call it hypnotic. (and from time to time it accelerates as if it had gotten a turbo boost.) - But what really sold me on this film was it's overall FEEL. etc.
Reading the reviews one can understand, that whole lot of people simply did not get this film. It's not for everyone to recognize something truly remarkable at once. But 80% did. And it is really hard to understand, why Drive was candidate at only "best supporting actor's" category at Golden Globe. It's probably movie of the year. Actually the best movie I've seen since "The Hurt Locker".
and some of my own thoughts: - This movie is beautiful. And it's beauty has a tremendous power in it. - Humanistic, yet stone cold character with noble ideas and methods, that put him right on the same line with his enemies. And he knows it. One may call it as an ultimate sacrifice. And the coolest thing is - he does not pity himself for that. The choice has been made. - This movie gives Clint Eastwood's "silent hero" character/stereotype a new, intellectual dimension.
This is one of my top20 movies ever, no doubt about it.