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Summary: Romantic and Beautiful Movie: Mrs. Soffel
Review: This movie is one of the best dark romantic movies that I have ever seen. A woman (Diane Keaton)who is not happily married finds renewal in life and for the first time in life falls in love with a prison inmate (Mel Gibson). She realizes how much she loves him and he realizes how much he loves her and their only wish in life is for God to allow them to be together. I don't want to ruin the movie by telling too much but, if you get this your getting a great movie full of love, lust, action, religion and a journey over feelings and how you must follow them to be happy. This movie reminds me of the dark romantic tale Romeo and Juliet.Charlie
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Summary: Romantic and Beautiful Movie: Mrs. Soffel
Review: This movie is one of the best dark romantic movies that I have ever seen. A woman (Diane Keaton)who is not happily married finds renewal in life and for the first time in life falls in love with a prison inmate (Mel Gibson). She realizes how much she loves him and he realizes how much he loves her and their only wish in life is for God to allow them to be together. I don't want to ruin the movie by telling too much but, if you get this your getting a great movie full of love, lust, action, religion and a journey over feelings and how you must follow them to be happy. This movie reminds me of the dark romantic tale Romeo and Juliet. Charlie
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Summary: Vividly and brilliantly made!
Review: Yet ANOTHER film to add to my favorite list of films! Could Diane Keaton be any more appealing and exquisite?!?!?! This beautiful movie deserves much MORE credit than it got! On a basic note, this movie is about a prison warden's wife, Kate Soffel, who meets and falls in love with a prisoner, Ed Biddle, on death row. Of course, that's very intriguing because how can two people on total opposite sides of life be together? I cannot say how emotional I was at the ending. It's impossible to sum up this exceptional movie in a few words. More or less, this story only applies to every person who have experienced true love, but also felt pain. Despite the conditions, the lovers manage to find a way to be together forever, and that's true love in its purest. The landscape, winter, contributes to the emptiness and instability of Kate and her husband's marriage, and the violet poem contributes to the youth and beauty of Kate and Ed's doomed, but beautiful relationship. It strikes your emotional chords at very opportune times, and it also gets you thinking about love back in the 1900's and the real Kate Soffel. Simply remarkable.I cannot put any of the words I'm thinking about the movie in clarification- I am telling this abstractly and undefined, because it's the way I felt. I felt the way I felt, and this is the best I can do. I am still emotionally attached to this movie, and of course, no clear explanations come with emotions. I have to admit, I found the ending S A D and unpredictable. It still brings tears to my eyes whenever I think of it. It's beautiful and painful. When Kate felt pain at the very ending, I also felt pain, too, for the doomed lovers. It's just so sad. I found the very last minutes striking. A voice sounding out lines from the violet poem while the camera looms down and swoops past prison cells... "A little violet from across the way came to cheer a lonely prisoner in his cell one day...." and from there, unfolds the heartbreaking story of Kate Soffel and Ed Biddle. DO N O T MISS IT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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