SjorsHoukes
02-22-2003, 05:34 PM
"Oh wow.......my mouth is open...."
That was one thing I recal thinking while watching the last scenes of About Schmidt. Schmidt - he just isnīt Nicholson anymore - puzzled and caught me from the beginning. The movie was slow, but well acted and not the least boring.
But at this point, the point where Warren is about to say some words at the wedding of his daughter, were really acted out well! The moment where he starts to mumble: "What I want to say...what I would really like to say is.." was pulling up the tension in my head: is he going to say what he thinks? No, he wonīt, I thought, he just wonīt. He canīt, heīs an old man. The result was something that made me respect very much the choices of the director - it made the film altogether more believable.
About Schmidt made me almost weep at the end, something that doesnīt happen very often to me (I didnīt cry in the end, too bad). Can somebody tell me why? Is it my fear of getting as sad as Warren? Is it because I am intrigued by his mistakes and misfortunes in life? Or is it just a simple thing called feeling sorry for him?
Please tell me what you thought. I donīt think this is a genius movie, but it somehow got to me a little at the end and I am altogether very pleased with the writerīs, Nicholsonīs and the directorīs choices to make a solid movie about getting old.
That was one thing I recal thinking while watching the last scenes of About Schmidt. Schmidt - he just isnīt Nicholson anymore - puzzled and caught me from the beginning. The movie was slow, but well acted and not the least boring.
But at this point, the point where Warren is about to say some words at the wedding of his daughter, were really acted out well! The moment where he starts to mumble: "What I want to say...what I would really like to say is.." was pulling up the tension in my head: is he going to say what he thinks? No, he wonīt, I thought, he just wonīt. He canīt, heīs an old man. The result was something that made me respect very much the choices of the director - it made the film altogether more believable.
About Schmidt made me almost weep at the end, something that doesnīt happen very often to me (I didnīt cry in the end, too bad). Can somebody tell me why? Is it my fear of getting as sad as Warren? Is it because I am intrigued by his mistakes and misfortunes in life? Or is it just a simple thing called feeling sorry for him?
Please tell me what you thought. I donīt think this is a genius movie, but it somehow got to me a little at the end and I am altogether very pleased with the writerīs, Nicholsonīs and the directorīs choices to make a solid movie about getting old.