A simple tale wonderfully told

Rating: 10/10 (24 July 2009)

I have only seen about a dozen films in a cinema setting in my life and this film was one of the many that I originally watched on Video. I watched it for the first time about five years ago having not previously heard of it before. I was swept away by the way the story unfolded and at the end I just felt as if my life had been uplifted by having watched it. Not in some life changing way but just being better than it was. I am not an idiot but I cannot adequately describe exactly how this film affected me, maybe I don't need to. I have watched a lot of the films in the IMDb top 250 and numerous that are not in the list and this is one of very few which I would watch again and again. Im not interested in the way it was made I just appreciate it for what it is. It is a masterpiece in the same way that a piece of music or a painting would be regarded and in my humble opinion deserves to be at the top of the pile in the IMDb top 250. It probably wont sort your problems out for you but it should make you think about whats important in life. One of the few conclusions that I personally came to was that it shows that the expression 'what goes around comes around' is in the film for all to see. In a nutshell the good and bad that people do have a way of coming back eventually to reward or penalise. The main characters in the film were either rewarded or penalised and real life isn't always that organised or fair. Anyway everybody has an opinion and if there is anybody out there that hasn't seen this film please watch it you might not like it but it is almost certain you will be affected by this film.