An excellent film

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2004)

Profoundly touching and enthralling, this film presents:

Beauty. Well blended into one were the incredibly magnificent landscapes and strikingly attractive characters, which will move any hearts that are able to appreciate beauty.
Love. Deep affection between the father and sons, among the brothers and lovers, was the driving force behind everything occurring in the drama.

Fate. An invisible force that, more often than not, landed one with the opposite of what one desired to have. And no matter how hard people had tried to organize their lives, there was no escaping their respective destinies. The father, out of his hatred for wars and dislike of the government, had settled his family in a remote mountain area to lose the madness of the world, and yet had to watch his sons leaving him for the war. Samuel, the youngest brother treasured by the whole family, was the first to die. Alfred, who fell in love with Susannah at the first sight of her, had to wait ¡ª long and painfully, one brother after another¡ª to get her and marry her, only to lose her again in the most horrible way. And Tristan¡ª despite his strong, wild, handsome appearance, despite the fact that he was adored by those around him¡ª was the most suffering soul of the all: A man whose feelings had been torn between his beloved brothers and his lover, a man who had to sort out, but failed, what was wrong with him, and why was it that everything he touched caused disasters.
A wonderful film is Legends of the Fall. My rate: 10/10. My hope: More movies should be made in this vein: breathtaking beauty accompanying the hard truth of reality¡ª the complexity and imperfection of human nature, which is forever shadowed by unaccountable, invincible fate.