Product: Snow Falling on Cedars (2000)
Rating: 5.0
One of the Greatest films ever made.
This is a very well made film. I hated watching it, but it was very well done. I hated it because it made me feel; as a good movie will do. It brought out love, obsession, fear, hatred, self-pity, pride, predjudice, and shame. This film is set in one of America's darkest moments. During WWII and post WWII our country and our people were ruled by fear and prejudice. The sins we committed against our own citizens were attrocious. This is at a deeper level, a love story. This is the struggle of one man to deal with the past and conquer his own introversion. He must find a way to come out of the shadow of his father and the tyranny of lost love. The acting is believable, so much so that it was as if I fell in love with the girl. And I felt every emotion the main character feels. It still haunts me as though it were my own memory.