This is a truly great and moving picture about freedom

Rating: 8/10 (23 May 2008)

I watched this movie at the cinema this week and I was completely sucked into this great story. The director has done a great job for two main reasons. The first is that he tells the story in such a way that the main character as well as his parents and sister are displayed in a just and appropriate manner. I believe it is often attractive, and easy, to make some of the characters to be more rightious. I think Sean Penn has been very brave on this point not to include judgments, either subtle or hard, into this movie. Any judgment is left to the viewer. The second great thing is that Penn moves away from the standard Hollywood way of filming. He does so by portraying things from the viewpoint of an observer that has a very wide scope. Especially at the end of the movie this is displayed in a very beautiful and moving way when the protagonist dies. At that very special point the two qualities that distinguish this movie merge and make the ending of it into an equally transcendent and immanent apotheosis that is neither good nor bad, but indescribably beautiful and completely transparant. True freedom knows no definitions nor boundaries!