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Release Date: 04 March, 2003 Retail Price: $19.94 OUR Price: $12.97 You SAVE: $6.97! Cast: Complete Cast (17 total) |
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The Age of Innocence - "I have to give you up in order to love you"......
There are many reviews here and I believe in their own way, they all are right about this film. My main recommendation is to be sure to watch it more than once. If you do, it will begin to open up new vistas for you about this film and the period in which it takes place. Daniel Day-Lewis again makes this film. You feel his pain throughout once he unfortunately falls in love with the "wrong woman" after being engaged to the "right woman". He is a true gentleman in every sense of the word and you mourn for him throughout this film.
Due to circumstances out of his control, he is thrown together with the wrong woman at the very time he has been pushing to move the date up for his wedding to the right woman. After I had watched this one time, (primarily due to Day-Lewis)I had decided to give it away. I left it alone for about 2 weeks and then watched it again. Since then I have watched it several times and I enjoy it more and more with each viewing. My only real complaint, I hate the blond hair they gave Pfeiffer as well. It's just all wrong for her. Still she is so beautiful. Take the time to watch it at least two times. If you do, I think you'll find it's a keeper.
One of Scorsese's best
A number of months ago I sat in a darkened theatre and watched Brokeback Mountain. While I thought the film was quite good (certainly better than Crash), I couldn't help but feel like I had seen this story done before, but much more effectively. Of course, I had, and that was in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's lovely novel. Both Brokeback Mountain and The Age of Innocence deal with the struggles that people make to break free from society's suffocating grasp, and in both cases true love is turned away in exchange for societal acceptance. Yet, The Age of Innocence doesn't resort to the cop-out that Brokeback Mountain does (*spoilers*: Jack Twist being martyred). Rather, The Age of Innocence offers a much more painful outcome: living the rest of your life knowing that the one person you love is within reach, but choosing to remember her as she was and living out your life in solitude. This film is one of the absolute best films of the 1990s.
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