Sarah Polley - Courage - The Sweet Hereafter

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Love this movie

Such a great film.

Mike might have had the truck in the video and the Presidential Wave, but I have the little girl. Her tumor is getting better, it won't need to be operated on, and we finally have a bed to sleep on. Without Human Rights or Justice it will always be a realtime film of survival and tragedy.

Without emotions where would the movie industry be today? And we will always be stuck with rats just like the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

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"Yes We're Surrounded" SARAH QUELL

Wow! This movie is not a complaint, nor a legal drama or a detective story. The film searching around the theme of survival to a family tragedy, the processing of grief, the guilt of adults when a child dies, the living with the pain. Based on a novel by Russell Banks. Egoyan made his 5th work, shot in Cinemascope almost away from a cruel and painful history. Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. Awesome.

I'd argue that he's ignored because he doesn't structure in a way American audiences are used to. The movie was lovely but it took me a little to adjust to the rhythm, and I'm an obsesive film buff. Surely it's harder for others.

The problem is just that, as mentioned already, he makes intelligent movies. It's not a statement of liberal elitism to state the the bulk of the world isn't looking for anything challenging or intelligent. The reason this movie is hugely well known is the same reason that classic music or jazz isn't widely appreciated. It actually requires some thought and appreciation of subtley. There are hundreds of other films that suffer similarly. Doesn't matter the nationality of the director.

Oops that should have been "this movie is NOT hugely well known". Oh, the difference one word makes.

Oh, and though I've said before way back on this thread, I'll say again, one of the best films ever made. It completely wrecks me every time I see it. It just packs an emotional punch rarely ever achieved in film. If I had to to pick two desert island films, it might well be this one and "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman".

I'm convinced that there's no access to great films because people just don't care. Manipulative bilge like Schindler's List will reign forever on even plebes' best-of lists, while this will always have to be prefaced with the quasi-rhetorical "Have you ever heard of ..." line. Its characterizations are too complex; if everything's not laid out in the most obvious way then your average American cit gets confused and bored, having as he does the emotional and intellectual depth of a reptile.