I recently saw this movie and I want to write a review immediately.
This movie is... how shall I put it... It's kinda hard to put it... okay, it's not a movie. It's a story. It's more like a journey. It talks about a father, Ssm Dawson, who was mentally disabled and whether he is capable of taking care of his 7-year daughter, Lucy Daawson. So the child service takes his daughter away from him and tries to get a foster parents to care for the child. Along the way we see a lot of emotional clashes, like a father who wants to reunite with his daughter, a daughter who wants nothing more than her father's love which only Sam Dawson could give, Sam's attorney Rita who has a husband who is cheating on her and son who feels their parents are not paying close attention towards him, and then the foster family who wants to take custody of Lucy Dawson, seeing her as their own daughter but didn't know how to end the love and affection Lucy and Sam have for each other.
It's just difficult to mix systems and rules and conscience, sometimes. I mean, we make a system and follow the rules, do we have to follow the rules all the time ? Or do we have follow our consciences ? Where to follow the System and when do we look into our conscience ? Is it possible to look at them together always ? How does it affect us ? From this movie, do we have to look into the child's affairs in what ways ? Through the rules or through the heart ? Is it right to separate a kid from his/her parents just because they are not intelligent than their kids ? I mean, what parents wouldn't want their kids to be smarter than them ?
Sean Penn as Sam gives an Oscar worthy performance. Dakota Fanning as Lucy shines in her role and proves that she's beyond exceptional. Michele Pfeiffer as Rita does justice to her role as well. A very well written movie. At some places I felt the emotion building up in my heart. I wanted to cry in the middle and smile at the end. I have never seen such a powerful movie in my life. It had that much of an impact on me. I am 24 now, I never had a girlfriend and am single, but after seeing this movie, I just want to be a Dad, like right now. It had that much of an impact on me.
Awesome performance. Amazing cast. Excellent directing. Nice Script. Nice story. Very well written. Very good editing. Beautiful cinematography. Wonderful musical score. And honestly, I can't see why people are not choosing heavy subjects like this. Nowadays they just want to movies with special effects and stuffs.
Just, watch this movie. You'll know what I mean. It's one of a kind and unique in many ways. A masterpiece. It's definitely going into my DVD collection.
This movie is... how shall I put it... It's kinda hard to put it... okay, it's not a movie. It's a story. It's more like a journey. It talks about a father, Ssm Dawson, who was mentally disabled and whether he is capable of taking care of his 7-year daughter, Lucy Daawson. So the child service takes his daughter away from him and tries to get a foster parents to care for the child. Along the way we see a lot of emotional clashes, like a father who wants to reunite with his daughter, a daughter who wants nothing more than her father's love which only Sam Dawson could give, Sam's attorney Rita who has a husband who is cheating on her and son who feels their parents are not paying close attention towards him, and then the foster family who wants to take custody of Lucy Dawson, seeing her as their own daughter but didn't know how to end the love and affection Lucy and Sam have for each other.
It's just difficult to mix systems and rules and conscience, sometimes. I mean, we make a system and follow the rules, do we have to follow the rules all the time ? Or do we have follow our consciences ? Where to follow the System and when do we look into our conscience ? Is it possible to look at them together always ? How does it affect us ? From this movie, do we have to look into the child's affairs in what ways ? Through the rules or through the heart ? Is it right to separate a kid from his/her parents just because they are not intelligent than their kids ? I mean, what parents wouldn't want their kids to be smarter than them ?
Sean Penn as Sam gives an Oscar worthy performance. Dakota Fanning as Lucy shines in her role and proves that she's beyond exceptional. Michele Pfeiffer as Rita does justice to her role as well. A very well written movie. At some places I felt the emotion building up in my heart. I wanted to cry in the middle and smile at the end. I have never seen such a powerful movie in my life. It had that much of an impact on me. I am 24 now, I never had a girlfriend and am single, but after seeing this movie, I just want to be a Dad, like right now. It had that much of an impact on me.
Awesome performance. Amazing cast. Excellent directing. Nice Script. Nice story. Very well written. Very good editing. Beautiful cinematography. Wonderful musical score. And honestly, I can't see why people are not choosing heavy subjects like this. Nowadays they just want to movies with special effects and stuffs.
Just, watch this movie. You'll know what I mean. It's one of a kind and unique in many ways. A masterpiece. It's definitely going into my DVD collection.