Title: An Exercise In Brutality To What End?
Product review: I gave this film two stars, one for Kidman the other for Zellwigger, as for the story itself the brutality of Inman's odysseian journey back to Ada overwhelms their unbelievable romantic attachment to each other. Director Minghella fails utterly in making their love come convincingly to life in the way David Lean did with Yuri and Lara in "Dr Zhivago", so the viewer is subjected to one horrific episode of brutality after another without the reward of genuine fulfillment at the end, and ironically it is Ada who lures Inman into his journey of ultimate self-destruction with her letter pleading with him to desert and come back to her. At the conclusion I felt only revulsion at the detailed portrayal of the brutalities and emptiness for Ada and Inman.
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