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Rating: 10/10 (8 September 2006)

I've never made a comment on a movie, so I didn't know if what I wrote would constitute as a spoiler. So just in case...
I saw this movie the weekend it came out. It immediately became my favorite. I'm really not even sure what to say. There are times during the movie when you think you have it figured out. I had ideas of what might happen next. But then something happens that completely throws everything off. It is not a "I figured it out halfway through" movie.
Also, there are points where you are so happy because, as a family, they think they have everything planned out. But then everything goes to pot. One thing after another, we, the audience, are brought down low with them. Once it gets you so low that you think you will cry if one more personal individual tragedy strikes, it slowly raises. By the end, you want to cry for joy because everything ends up opposite of how you thought it would be.
This really is a "redemption" film. In everyone's lives, horrible things happen and we think that nothing will be well again. But through the storm comes the sun, and it shines brighter than it would have had we not been caught in the hurricane.