Believe

Rating: 9/10 (7 February 2005)

I believe in many things, truly, because believing is one of those obligatory terms of life. If you don't believe in something, it would be having no reason to be alive.
That said, believing is maybe the main message of this film. In many moments, when we're watching it, maybe we can realize how simple it is, just because there's nothing totally outstanding about it, visually. But its story, is just one of those that carry you all along, no matter what. You don't have to be a kid to enjoy this one, in fact, it shows adults some things also.
The characters in this film are as warm and natural as possible. You know what happens here is no fantasy, it is reality. You could easily see this events any day in your ordinary life. These kids meet the man and they just can't let him go. And the greatest thing, it's that it could be because of them, but mainly it is because of him. This is a man who has so much inside waiting to let go and show, and he has found the people to reveal these things.
Then there is acting. Johnny Depp is a genius, in everything he's ever done. He knows just, no the right, but the only notes, for the specific moments in this film, and in many others. How does he do it? Well, I don't mind to know if he continues to show magic every time he's on screen. Here he has given another performance of those he can only give. Freddie Highmore reaches some moving extremes, handling them very well, becoming the revelation of the young cast. And Kate Winslet is wonderful.
There's just a lot of things that make this movie what it is. You just go and see it for yourselves and let go imagination to those sometimes unreachable places.
But you have to believe...