Reaching through the cynicism

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2000)

One of the best tributes for this film for came in 1989 when I saw it at a second run theatre in Pittsburgh run by the Pitt theatre department. Most of the audience was college students, many of them dressed all in black theatre students, who at the end when Peter Falk said, "As you wish," let out a huge collective "Awwwwwww." This film speaks to the idea of true love, on many different levels - obviously the romantic version between Westley and Buttercup, but also the true love between friends who will do anything for each other, as Fezzik, Inigo and Westley do for each other, and also a true paternal love as witnessed by Peter Falk's final line. I cannot see this movie enough times.