Good idea lost in the noise

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Like so many artsy fartsy I want you to watch this for it's slow paced crap movie, this film subscribes to the idea that any old bs that you feed up to a pseudo intellectual audience will be absorbed in the same way that any action crap flick that you feed to the opposite dimension will work. This film is DULL. DULL DULL DULL. Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman can't save this yawn and ED Harris delivers a stereotype of a Mr Criminal ex-lover/bf/husband despite labouring the opposite. This is rubbish disguised thinly as art. Thank god for Twin Peaks!

It's 1998. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a Jewish classics professor at Athena College. He comments that two students are spooks for missing class. It turns out that they're black and complains are filed about its racist connotation. Coleman is incensed and his wife dies from the stress. He hires fiction writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) to write about his life. He recalls his early life (Wentworth Miller) and his love Steena Paulsson (Jacinda Barrett). He starts having a fling with a much younger Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman). Her ex-husband Lester Farley (Ed Harris) is unstable and stalking her. Coleman's lawyer Nelson Primus (Clark Gregg) tries to talk him out of his relationship.This struggles to gather any speed. The Hopkins Kidman romance holds the potential of something compelling. Based on the novel, this movie is all about the secret. I'm willing to swallow Hopkins' casting. The flashback to Wentworth Miller is problematic. It stalls the movie every time. It also reveals the secret right away which lessens any shock value. The flashbacks should be pushed further back in the film so that his rejections in both time periods happen at the same time. There is a passionate affair at the center but all around it, the movie keeps working to drain away the tension.

A chance circumstance of birth. One child might be handsome, one may be deformed. One never knows what advantages or disadvantages they will be bestowed in life. A fascinating tale of self hatred, undeserved and unnecessary. But not surprising for the time period. When we can't show who we really are, isn't that what we are doing? An unusual story, but most likely a common one. Played understated by both Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins. Ed Harris is menacing as soon as he appears on screen. Gary Sinise is as we, the audience,knowing nothing. Then gradually, it is slowly revealed like an onion. Layer after layer. Nicole Kidman obviously did her research on battered women. It all rings true.Each character struggling with what they do and do not know. What do they choose to do with that? Wentworth Miller was a brilliant choice as the young Coleman.The irony in that casting is revealed in the trivia notes, so don't read them until the film is over. I was enthralled by this film and count it among my favorites of all time.

This film tells us about the confrontation with the past of two different characters. I really like this part because Faunia (Nicole Kidman) has a soul living with a bundle of very tragic episodes needing to be shared about her life. It's not only about Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins)'s secret here. Coleman indeed realizes has 'two bloods' in a time when realizing that involved intolerance and lack of respect; so he stays away of it even this decision involves his own family. On the other hand, Faunia realizes her new family environment is negative for her and she decides to stay away from this but she gets involved in an abusive relationship later on, so again she's being chased from what she's escaping from. Coleman, many years later, sees himself being accused of what he didn't confront many years earlier, probably just a coincidence, probably just something else. Thus, those two characters met each other and I think that's the most positive way had to go for them. They had stories to tell and eventually, you need someone to share your stuff no matter how tragic is your story... perhaps you find someone that not only can listen to you but also, give you love and... as a plus, he's got a secret for you.