beautiful but....incomplete?

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2005)

When you first hear what the story is about: a man with scissor hands, its almost impossible to imagine how could a movie be done about this. Tim Burton is just an artist with an incredible imagination who decided to make a movie so different from others. Edward may be not so "pretty" on the outside but he surely is on the inside, and Peg didn't noticed about his look but the way he was so she brought him home trying to improve his view of life and his life itself. Then, poor Edward seems to be seen like a local celebrity in a place full of rumors and gossip. When Edward meets Kim, she freaks out at the beginning but starts appreciating him after a while but in a more honest way than the neighbors. Finally Kim falls in love with him.
The story was amazing and the acting was incredible. Johnny Depp played his part very well. Tim Burton is one of the best directors and it would be impossible to improve the story he created as a teenager. Isn't that incredible? a teenager created such an original and emotional story? About the ending: When I saw the movie for the first time, I thought the ending was upsetting. Later I saw it in DVD where I chose to see it with the comments of the director. Just at the end he said that he preferred to make Edward and Kim never see each other again than struggle for a long time trying to think about a way they could meet again. That upset me even more. When you love someone you are supposed to be with that someone. Would you resist having a loved person and never see him/her again, when you can just walk a few meters to see him/her? In some point of the movie, Peg says something that makes you think that Edward would be more happy if he lived "up there", that made the ending less painful but the fact that he and Kim never meet again? Quite absurd. It makes you think that when Kim told Edward that she loved him, the words she said were just words and not her real feelings. Anyway I give an 8 to the movie because it teaches us many things such as respect, but I think the movie's end was as unfinished as Edward Scissorhands was.