could there be a better movie?

Rating: 10/10 (10 February 2008)

I didn't think a movie like this could even be possible. It is an indescribable feeling like when you see a new born child, or when you get the first smell of the see air, or when you see someone you've missed for a long time. Emotions mix and mangle throughout the movie giving it a certain quality only few movies have achieved in all the years of cinema. Movies like The Godfather and Starwars have not even began to touch on the basic human emotions you experience while watching this movie. The way the character goes through the changes of the people around him, and in himself are truly what make this movie captivating. Daniel Day-Lewis plays a tormented soul like no other giving the character something that even Marlon Brando would have a difficult time achieving. I've never felt so strongly about a movie like what I felt after watching this. How the character went through the nice, giving, charismatic person into the drunk, tortured person that he eventually becomes is marvelous...and yet heart breaking at the same time. I didn't actually know exactly what I felt after seeing the movie...I couldn't quite place the emotion until now, it is content. I don't feel like I have to keep searching for a certain painting, or a stanza of poetry that touches my inner being because I have found this movie, this...work of art, this...masterpiece. It kept me on the edge of my seat both physically and emotionally until the very end. So I do hope you get out and see something that will be held in regard as one of the greatest pictures in human history.