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Summary: Haunting Human Drama Diguised as A Political Thriller
Review: "When I was a child I thought as a child, when I became a man I gave up childish things." The words of the captive(Stephen Rea) to his prisoner(Forrest Wittikar) the night before he has to shoot him. He has (unwisely) formed a human bond with his prisoner, and its easy to see way, because Jodi as played by Whittikar is a lovable, open hearted and kind man. Even though he is only in the movie for 20 about minutes, Whittikars performance haunts the rest of the film, we come to understand more of his character once we meet the love of his life he left behind, Dill(Jaye Davidson). Caught between the two is Stephen Rea's Fergues, who with those soulful heart broken eyes of his, discovers the gift and troubles Jodi has left him by telling him about his girlfriend. When Dill sings the crying game in the pub, we can feel real pain in "I know all there is to know about the crying game" because she like Fergues (who's lost his faith in the cause he's fighting for)and Jodi are very lonely people. This is a truly beautiful and original film, its tone is rather sad because Fergues's past will defintely come back to claim him and we know this, but it deserves to be owned not just watched because like the best of movies its impact is not lessened on repeated viewings. Jodi's character gains that much more poignance once we know about Dill, therefore when you watch the movie again, the opening scenes are that much more powerful. Finally I have to mention the great muusical score and an unforgettable story told by Jodi and then by Fergues about the frog and the scorpion that bookends the film. The Crying Game is a great film.
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Summary: Worth watching!
Review: The Crying Game has been on my must see list for years now and I finally saw it. This movie has an interesting way of looking at love from a different perspective then what we're used to. I really enjoyed this movie because it had it's own way of expressing the lengths of love and how we must at times overcome obsticales for the people we care about.It lost one star because it could get tedious at times but if you haven't already seen this one, I recommend it.Even though it may be a bit odd for some people, watch it with an open mind.
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Summary: The best British movie in the 90's.
Review: Not enough great things can be said about 'The Crying Game'-Neil Jordan's mastepiece. The whole movie is incredibly beautiful from start to finish. (I regretted missing this movie in the theater dismissing this as 'gender bender flick.') Honestly, I can compare 'The Crying Game' to 'Vertigo.' Just think it takes more than 20 years for mass (including most moronic critics) to appreciate 'Vertigo.'
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Summary: still crazy about it
Review: I saw this film about a month before, and i can hardly get through it. I loved the storry of the film, because it's not the usually thing, happens in all the others. Nowadays I'm in love with this gorgeous actor Stephen Rea. Short: this is the best film, I ever saw, it's my favourite.
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Summary: the most romantic thriller ever.
Review: jaye davidson's debut as the mysterious, vulnerable dil makes this movie unforgettable. stephen rea, another skilled thespian, plays the very sweet & cute jimmy w/ such sensitivity & sincerity that i kept thinking that he & dil were real people & i was watching their romance unfold. you've got to watch this movie to believe it :)
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Summary: .
Review: I found the first half-hour of this film riveting, and the rest of it lukewarm and confusingly bleak. I can certainly respect it for being (for the most part) well-made, unflinchingly original, and strongly performed. I also have to give it credit for the tangible, bewildering, and unsettling dream-like atmosphere it evokes. But although I have no problem with "bleak" movies, if you will, every once in a while I'll see one that comes off as bleak in a way that leaves me feeling bored and empty rather than touched, meaningfully disturbed, or moved. The Crying Game is such a film. A flawed and somewhat silly ending didn't help. Critically I don't have many qualms with the film on the whole, but at the same time, I can't say I felt like I gained much of anything from seeing it, other than a very detached respect for the talent involved and an oppressive feeling of dull, unenriched numbness.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I felt this film is a true classic! While it did not make it in terms of a major box office hit, I believe it is the public's loss. The filming was excellent and the charactors are portrayed as complex individuals, not simply part of a story, but real, indepth persons who evoke a response from those who view the film. Superb!
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Summary: i fell in love w/ jaye davidson :) and i'm not even gay
Review: first-time actor jaye davidson lights up the silver screen w/ his riveting performance as dil. stephen rea is very sweet & memorable as jimmy. i love that bar scene where jimmy gives dil "the look." i still love this movie after seeing it 7 times and own boy george's "crying game" single
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Summary: Unique and extraordinary
Review: This movie is impossible to pin down. Is it a romance? A comedy? A political thriller? A violent noir? It changes at every turn and leaves the viewer breathless. Disturbing and oddly sweet all at the same time, it's a true original and quite possibly the '90s best movie.
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: Much was made over a single plot twist when this film was originally released-- a plot twist so widely discussed that the film became something of an international sensation on the basis of that single point alone. This was unfortunate, for The Crying Game has much, much more to recommend itself than a single plot twist alone. Aside from the masterpieces of Hitchcock, I can think of no other film which so completely defeats viewer expectations at every turn.Much of this effect is due to a remarkable script, which is by turns direct and subtle and repeatedly leads viewers into an "Oh, I get it!" frame of mind-- only to explode any preconception the viewer may have developed. What at first seems one type of film suddenly seems another, leading one from a date at the fair to a terrorist kidnapping to a love story to an assasination plot. Most remarkable of all, the script actually carries it off, pulling you effortlessly from one context to another with never a bump in the road. One really has to see the film more than once appreciate it's complexity. The script is abetted by amazing camera work, which like the script itself astonishes with a mix of beauty and gritty realism. The performers are top-flight, and the characters have a depth which is generally lacking from most motion pictures. Like them or not, they are singularly believeable, and their reality creates a certain sense of inevitablity in the events which unfold around them. While all the performers are excellent, Miranda Richardson is a standout. The Crying Game will not be every one's movie; it is an intellectual's game which requires a mature attitude and an open mind. But like it or not, it is a remarkable film which will probably out-live the more popular but considerably less powerful films of the decade.
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