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The more I watch it, the more brilliant it seems

posted 15 years ago by vespid23
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This movie has been on cable quite frequently, but the more I see it, the more I realize how great this movie is.

It's not a typical drama, but a fairy tale in drama form. If it had been instead produced as an animated feature, along the line of Beauty and the Beast, for example, haters would have a much easier time seeing that. I give the makers of this film credit for doing it in a live action style with real people on the screen portraying the story rather than a lavish, colorful splash of animation. In the case of this movie, the actors and the music carry the story, and I like it.

It's not a movie to be analyzed, it's a movie to be felt.

[–] AlaskaJimmy 12 years ago

I agree. It's a *beep* amazing movie!

[–] AccidntlTourist 11 years ago

"It's not a movie to be analyzed, it's a movie to be felt."

Exactly.
Art is to be felt.

I think of it less as a "fairy tale" and more as a mythical fantasy; a "what if".

This might be the story - the legend - of the greatest musical genius of our century.

I agree - a movie to be felt; I felt in my heart - the wind singing in the grass; the chimes; the sounds of the city mixed in the echo chamber of skyscrapers. A film about a boy prodigy that saw sound the way a math genius might see numbers - complex formulas composed in their mind.

Could all of these things - "in concert" really happen?
Never.

But, does this make for a fantastical escapist work of art?
Yes.

In recent months the nation and world have seemed to spiral down into the darkest of places and this work of art - this fantasy - has helped to lift me up; to contemplate the beauty that is all around us; beauty that most of us never take the time to notice.

This film also gave me the opportunity to see Robin Williams as I've never seen him before - and never will again, now that he's gone.

A film about gifted artists (such as Robin Williams); how they are driven and how they struggle to express their gifts.

[–] boudicea1967 10 years ago

That is what I have tried to tell people on other posts. It should not be analyzed and picked apart. It uses music as a way to bring two people back together. People need to believe that a happy ending is possible but to have a perfect ending is rare. What is great about this movie is it shows the traditional fairy tale idea in the modern day and how something like this can happen or at least an illusion of a happy ending. I think people get happy and perfect mixed together. And it is perfect in it's imperfection.

But I want to ask if anyone else thinks this. Even though they were together just one night, were they connected somehow? I mean, were they destined to be together because in a short amount of time they spent together they made a connection that was so strong that destiny saw fit to bring them together. What do you think was the Lyla/Louis angle?