Beautifully directed, wonderfully enacted by Johnny Depp

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2012)

As a big fan of Johnny Depp, I just had to watch this movie. In a nutshell, this movie depicts how an 'artificially created' person, with scissors in place of hands is suddenly brought into a suburban society and how he struggles hard, maybe too hard to be accepted. While at first he gains popularity through his fairy tale like artistic cutting creations and innocent and pleasing personality, the hypocrisies of the real world start taking it's toll; to the point that his deeds of trying to help people with the purest intentions are misunderstood and more often than not deemed threatening.
Johnny Depp puts in an out of the world performance as Edward. Right from his facial expressions of an artificial man portraying innocence, confusion, love and child like excitement (when he sees the suburbs for the first time) to his body language portraying nervousness, wholehearted indulgence (while creating his works of art) and the frustration of being a misfit,it is just a treat to watch him enact this simple yet complex character.
The movie has created a number of emotionally captivating scenes; ranging from how Edward first senses Kim's feelings towards him but realizes that very moment that he does not fit into her world to the scene where Edward is presented with a pair of real hands by his creator but in a moment of misfortune loses it before he could even use it.
The music score provided by Elfman just adds extra magic to the emotionally rich scenes throughout the movie.
One of the best movies that I have watched in recent times. Watch it if you haven't already.