A very good movie about two 'successful' Actors who escape their personal lives to enter into a film about two characters who escape their 'personal lives' also - to take up acting as new characters who believe it will bring the happiness they seek. The layers emerge as they escape into acting out the lives of other people role after role and that their love for each other is more than just a performance of these roles. But like a movie that must end, they accept that they must shed those skins and return back 'through' to the original lives of both their characters and the personal lives of Firth & Blunt as well after the production of the movie is completed.
Such an amazing trip through the layers of Acting for two superb actors in Blunt & Firth who explore each other's personal inner fears of what Acting can do to each other. Firth's fear of being a castaway from his Family life and Blunt's fear of Acting sending her mad with identity loss.
Together in a film, they work it all out and that Acting for a Film is just that - an illusion with a (dead) Ending, even with its multiple levels of 'acting' out characterisations. Blunt & Firth did this in a way that one could almost believe that they had indeed found love in one another on film (as many others have) - so good was their performance with each other, that the final ending leaves it open that Firth knows where to find Blunt again... if ever there was 'true love' with each other with the roles they played. Such is acting by actors when they fear to lose themselves in the role of 'love' itself. Anyone who wants to be as good an actor as these two - should enjoy and learn from this superb sublime film. David Stratton: 5 stars. Margaret Pomeranz: 5 stars.
Such an amazing trip through the layers of Acting for two superb actors in Blunt & Firth who explore each other's personal inner fears of what Acting can do to each other. Firth's fear of being a castaway from his Family life and Blunt's fear of Acting sending her mad with identity loss.
Together in a film, they work it all out and that Acting for a Film is just that - an illusion with a (dead) Ending, even with its multiple levels of 'acting' out characterisations. Blunt & Firth did this in a way that one could almost believe that they had indeed found love in one another on film (as many others have) - so good was their performance with each other, that the final ending leaves it open that Firth knows where to find Blunt again... if ever there was 'true love' with each other with the roles they played. Such is acting by actors when they fear to lose themselves in the role of 'love' itself. Anyone who wants to be as good an actor as these two - should enjoy and learn from this superb sublime film. David Stratton: 5 stars. Margaret Pomeranz: 5 stars.
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