Don't Watch This Movie!! (Unless you want to Cry)

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2005)

I knew about this movie for a long time.
Heck, prison movies, don't turn me on so I have very negative impression, hence not watching it. I watched it today (Oct 2005) as it was on TV, and I thought, it's got good rating, so I'll watch it, least this way I won't be watching it alone. Might as well get it over with.
Well, any movie than can render a grown adult to tears and whirl up an emotional minefield, has to be respected. This movie has my utmost respect.
This is truly a great film, even with all my negative baggage, and seeing clips, and reading people raving about it, I still avoided it.
To render a grown man to cry even with all the baggage, has to be a really amazing film.
This film transcends cinema, to what it's truly about - to move you. So technically, it's pointless, you can go about actors, direction, shots, music and so on, and to analyse this film purely on that level would be one very stupid mistake. A mistake many have used while writing reviews.
The book or film, is simply a mechanism to get a message across, it can be flawed and still work perfectly. That's not the point.
The message here is clear and works perfectly, on many unconscious levels, it really would be stupid to try an figure it out.
You can't as its so simple.
We all have hope dreams and desires, and want freedom and a better future. Every person does. It's actually why we exist.
Not to have hope, dreams and desires and goals, is truly not to live. Not doing so, there is no meaning to life.
No matter what happens, keep positive, have hopes dreams and desires, that is your purpose here on this planet this is what this film is about, everything else is just mechanics to get this across?
Are you Positive?
Do you have hopes?
Do you have dreams?
Do you have goals?
Have you helped your fellow man, just for the beauty and pleasure of making someone happy, in a totally unselfish way, without any personal gain?
If you haven't and don't have hopes, dreams, desires and goals, you are not alive, you have no meaning to your life.
In conclusion, you can avoid this film as long as you want like I did, but when it does catch up with you... you better be ready, very ready.
If you aren't or don't understand what you are watching, and what really is going on between the lines and mechanics of the imperfect mechanism of cinema you are dead, truly dead, and you might as well end it now.
So my advise to you?
Don't Watch this film.
If you've read this far, and not got what I've been going on about you are a lost cause already, and you might as well go into your miserable life, and causing misery to yourself and others. Heck, it'll take you several lifetimes probably to get it.
So, remember DON'T WATCH THIS FILM, you don't deserve it.