Cruel and real

Rating: 8/10 (22 May 2012)

Life is not a perfect line, people make mistakes and progress. Some do think they are doing the right thing when in fact everything is wrong. This is quite often in systems under dictatorships, where the people have no right to think and to express freely their opinion. Huge mass follows what the leader is saying and some try to do his/her best for the ideas delivered by the leader. This story is about that, a person who thought to be a hero when in fact she was a monster, an illiterate monster. The plot was well conceived and the film was interesting from its beginning. The acting of Kate Winslet here was much better, in my personal opinion, than in Titanic. She was cruel and real. David Kross as young Michael Berg was also excellent showing naivety together with his thirst as a youngster with enough power to satisfy his female. The evolution of the film is unexpected, and adult Michael became a cult and discreet man with hidden suffering. Stephen Daldry, the director of the film, chose an uncommon plot and an excellent cast for a film, which is a good example that there are many real stories worth to be shown in cinema, and may serve for educating the people, particularly the young one.