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Title: Sophie's Choice ISBN: 1-55658-943-3 Publisher: Artisan Entertainment Pub. Date: 11 September, 1992 Format: VHS Tape Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (41 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Unforgettable
Comment: Meryl Streep's devastating performance captivated me from the first time I saw this film. I never really appreciated her before, but have been an avid fan ever since. Kevin Kline is also brilliant and charismatic as Nathan was portrayed in Styron's work. Peter McNicol captures Stingo in all his vulnerable and kind naivite. There is so much atmosphere throughout the film which covers every emotion possible. I felt so much warmth watching the friendship of the three characters unfold, chuckled over Stingo's disastrous attempts at romance with Leslie Lupidous, and then became completely engrossed in the unfolding mystery of Sophie's past. The final revelation of what the 'Choice' is left me numb with horror. But it also opened my eyes to the Holocaust as I'd never before seen it. I found this film more powerful overall than "Schindler's List", and believe it brings the suffering of those who survived the concentration camps to a new level of understanding. An important and tragic work of art.
Rating: 5
Summary: What is Evil?
Comment: Caught forever in an existential moment, Meryl Streep's portrayal of the aftereffects of Auschwitz is transfixing. Sophie is the guilt-ridden survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, and Streep's remarkable work brings her leaping off the screen into the hearts and minds of the watcher. This is a complex film which plays the outer tragedy of Sophie's present life against the inner tragedy of the evil she faced during the war.
As the story of Sophie's devastating past unfolds in flashbacks Streep faces choice after choice in her present life. Each seems to eat away at her life. Peter MacNicol and Kevin Kline unite to give performances that that carefully balance Streep's, creating an intense overall effect that cannot be described easily,
The film's emotional and intellectual content make is a bit too lengthy and stagy, but the lulls set the stage for the emotional crises. This is a heart rending story that will not be everyone's cup of tea, but Streep well deserves the Academy Award she got for this film, which was also nominated for best screenplay and best cinematography.
Rating: 4
Summary: Agonizing - in more ways than one
Comment: This movie is simply agonizing in more ways than one. First, the bad. This movie is very lengthy - 2 hours and 30 minutes, and let me tell you, I could feel each and every minute sloooowly tick by. The story moves slowly as well, and it's hard to tell - what is real? What is false? Even when Sophie's "choice" is revealed at the end, are we, the audience, sure this is real or just a fabrication? As Sophie says somewhere in the movie, she has told so many lies it is hard to sort the truth from the falsehoods.
The movie paints a portait of Stingo (Peter MacNicol, lately of Ally McBeal), a Southern writer who makes the acquaintance of Sophie and Nathan, his upstairs neighbors, and then can't get rid of them. Sophie's a Polish immigrant who has spent time in the concentration camps during WWII, while Nathan is a medical researcher obsessed with the evils of the Holocaust. Why did Sophie survive while so many others died? This is the question that haunts Nathan, and haunts Sophie, whose entire family was murdered in the concentration camps.
Eventually, slowly, the story of Sophie emerges to Stingo, as we get some dramatic close-ups of Sophie telling us the story, making it feel more like a play than a movie. We flashback to life in the concentration camps, which has been prepared for us by the sadness which permeated the first half. Truths also begin to emerge about Nathan - and the tragic lives of Sophie and Nathan wind closer towards their end.
Meryl Streep? Is just amazing. This is an awe-inspiring piece of work for Streep. She masters different dialects and speaks different languages for much of the film. Her Sophie is simply a haunting image that will stay with you long after the end credits finish. Kevin Kline as Nathan is perfect as well. Peter MacNicol? Well, I can take him or leave him.
When the movie ends, you may have to wipe yourself off from the floor - not only from the tragic sadness and despair of the film, but from the mind-numbing length. This movie paints pictures of so much evil and grief it's hard to get over.
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