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Really good movie
I don't expect anything more of a movie than to enjoy it and be entertained. I don't seek to psychoanalyze or offer up in-depth critique, it's only a movie. I either enjoy it or I don't. I like the story and the movie.

Phenomenal
Legends of the Fall is a breathtaking epic that tells the story of the Ludlow family through the eyes of their elder indian friend "Stab" (Gordon Tootoosis). It takes place in the Montana Rockies beginning in World War I and stretching about two decades afterwards.
At the center of this epic is the three Ludlow brothers: Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt), and Samuel (Henry Thomas), whose lives unwind telling tales of love, betrayal, guilt, and redemption. Their father (Anthony Hopkins) is a character whose performace warrants an academy award.
One of my favorite movies of all times. A movie featuring Pitt and Hopkins is always a winner.

Natural law against men law!
The major virtue of this emblematic film resides in the fiery character of their personages. Since we have born under the designs of the Trojan syndrome, it results us undecipherable certain behavior codes preserved by old legends enrooted and surrounded by the mythic paradigm.

The essential core has to with the transition between the natural law and the tenet of the rules. Of course there is a notorious homage to Shakespeare's Titus and King Lear in which concerns to the well visible differences between these three brothers.

From Lear we have the relationship between father and child. But Tristan ( thinking about Wagner?) is the embodiment of the irreverence, the son of nature, the alter ego of his father, a disillusioned Colonel who fought bravely in previous combats and singly detests all the related items with politics; he knows the real essence of the meaning of honor and loyalty under country' s service. But the nature is by definition, instinctive, because it has no memory. All his sons will enlist and fight as soldiers in the WW1, and through this process will face the reality of the youth's dreams. The weakest son Samuel looses the vision previous his imminent death (Remember the myth' s premise in the case of Wotan or Ragnar?). Alfred represents the new tradition, the submission and the loyal compliment of the law; he is the civilized man. But Tristan represents the wild force and definitively does not follow the tradition; he simply follows the bliss, the renaissance of the Viking' s spirit, that' s why his untamed spirit will lead him to new overseas lands and traditions.

This movie must have shocked many people, because that generation of the last half of the XIX Century, wrought under nature's designs spoke another idiom and even reasoned in another level; but as well as "The wild bunch", this is precisely what it most liked me; the confrontation between the hunter approach of the life and the modern way of life. Obviously his author sympathizes with the wildness and Tristan's death is simply a consequence of the natural order or told in other terms, the cosmic designs.

This was the film who catapulted Brad Pitt as solid actor, and one must guess that having as partner a monster actor as Anthony Hopkins it's easy understandable. What else can be added to this mesmerizing performance of the best actor of the world Sir Anthony Hopkins?. Formidable photography and sensitive direction. The masterpiece of Edward Zwick.

Magnificent in every little detail. There is nothing to disapprove. But just five stars?. An instantaneous cult movie and besides, one of the ten best American films of the decade.

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