Post by Hazelita on Jan 23, 2005 17:25:31 GMT -6
This was another movie I rented for the weekend. I'm still not sure if I like it or not. I guess I like it a little. 
It was a very sad and somewhat depressing film about a man (Anthony Hopkins) who saddles himself with the burden of a HUGE (and somewhat shocking) secret. He goes through life pretending to be something he's not. He gains respect in the halls of Academia as a professor and a dean, only to have it ripped away from him during a time when the whole world goes apeshit with political correctness. He loses everything: his respect, his wife, his job.
Then he meets an author (Gary Sinise) whom he befriends, trying to help him out of his writer's block by asking him to ghost-write the story of his downfall. The writer declines the offer to write the story but makes a friend.
He (Hopkins) also meets a young woman (Nicole Kidman) less than half his age with a troubled past and a mean ex-husband. This unlikely pair fall in love (although she'd deny it) and the troubles keep piling on.
With flashbacks from his past we learn what his secret is (I ain't gonna tell!) and we see how ironic the loss of his job is. He's accused of a violation so ridiculous it could only be laughable if everyone just knew the truth he has taken great pains to hide.
In the end, let's just say the author ends up having to write his friend's story, after he learns the guy's secret and he is (unfortunately) no longer around to tell it for himself. He only told one person, his young lover, and they both end up dead. So sad.
Chock full of good words and quotes for those of you who are fond of such things. I still want to know where "Action is the enemy of thought" comes from. Anybody???
It was a very sad and somewhat depressing film about a man (Anthony Hopkins) who saddles himself with the burden of a HUGE (and somewhat shocking) secret. He goes through life pretending to be something he's not. He gains respect in the halls of Academia as a professor and a dean, only to have it ripped away from him during a time when the whole world goes apeshit with political correctness. He loses everything: his respect, his wife, his job.
Then he meets an author (Gary Sinise) whom he befriends, trying to help him out of his writer's block by asking him to ghost-write the story of his downfall. The writer declines the offer to write the story but makes a friend.
He (Hopkins) also meets a young woman (Nicole Kidman) less than half his age with a troubled past and a mean ex-husband. This unlikely pair fall in love (although she'd deny it) and the troubles keep piling on.
With flashbacks from his past we learn what his secret is (I ain't gonna tell!) and we see how ironic the loss of his job is. He's accused of a violation so ridiculous it could only be laughable if everyone just knew the truth he has taken great pains to hide.
In the end, let's just say the author ends up having to write his friend's story, after he learns the guy's secret and he is (unfortunately) no longer around to tell it for himself. He only told one person, his young lover, and they both end up dead. So sad.
Chock full of good words and quotes for those of you who are fond of such things. I still want to know where "Action is the enemy of thought" comes from. Anybody???