hyped garbage

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

How can you do justice to a great book? The answer, judging from this film is you cannot. The film is polished and professional and lots of money has been pumped in-but it's all wrong. Jonathan Demme never ever achieves a sense of how emotional/spiritual and physical obliteration can be adequately portrayed (Why is the cinematography so pretty?).There is an adjunct between the material and it's treatment-it's shot in an epic form ("Gone With the Wind" from the other side)-when it should have been a pointed ghost story allegory about an horrendous past-more experimental, dreamlike and a lot angrier. The film is way too noble (and literal minded in a way the book is not) to be truly successful. Only Kimberly Elise manages to give some life to this ponderous, earnest(like "Schindler's List) narrative. Also why are African American men portrayed(as in "The Color Purple") as betrayers, liars? It is never made clear. Disappointing to say the least. 'Beloved" is proof positive that good intentions don't make good art.

This effort is unexpectedly cohesive, coherent, sub-text-ed with social diaspora, psychological dissolution, and emotional 'dysentery'; successfully juxtaposed and superimposed without being excessively offensive or exacerbating emotional trauma. The plot in contrast to the literary text has , at times, a staccato disconnected-ness, however the overall performance of the protagonist coupled with the 'solo' narrative inserts prove to be effective with keeping an audience at pace, or at least, a half step behind the instant cognitive interpretation of this visual manifesto. It's a valiant effort. Meritorious indeed!!!!

Believe it or not I saw Beloved tonight for the first time in its entirety..because I had seen pieces of it.Very well played....but there were scenes hard to hear, very dark movie...and a little bit confusing .......if beloved was a spirit..why make her so real? having sex and all didn't like it too much but I recognize the good work done.Oprah wanted to send a message but I don't think people really understood it...and also do not understand why I HAVE TO write 10 lines of text if I have nothing else to say

Famous feminist writer, Toni Morrison, deserved to win a Pulitzer Prize for her historical novel that represents Black American's struggles with slavery and freedom.How anyone, let alone hundreds of voters here, could rate this marvelously directed & performed film a 1 is beyond me. Oprah Winfrey is the leading lady of the cast who ultimately demonstrates what is an Oscar-entitled performance.Sethe, the character Winfrey plays is one of the most complex & challenging ones that I can imagine for any actor to take upon themselves. In fact, Winfrey stayed so true to her character, in my mind, she became Sethe: a former slave mother, a million & a half miles away from a Oprah the billionaire guest show host in Chicago! Danny Glover also gave a grand performance that was equally far from any other role I've seen him play. He & Winfrey together are a fine big screen match who I hope are in movies with Pulitzer prize winning plots as thick as is this one.