beautiful sadness

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2008)

It's difficult to find beautiful movies nowadays; except for rare moments. This is one of them. Beauty and sadness altogether. It's all here: atmosphere, sound, images, hope, tears, inescapable faith and above all (as the tag line says), innocence and its power over evil. One viewing of this movie is not enough. The real material takes form only on repeated viewings. Unfortunately, there is no compromise along: it shows the horror at its finest and the innocence at its purest, it shows the fact that they both coexist in different forms in different worlds, it shows the resolution that is implacable. This is not a children bedtime fantasy fable. The sole purpose of a movie should be to resonate with your purest feelings at the deepest level. This one brutally force you to look inside yourself and search for your lost innocence despite the fact that it shows no mercy acknowledging that it is impossible to regain it. This is not a movie, after all. It is a universe on its own. Should we choose to enter it, there is no turning back. It will haunt us for the remaining years of our lives.