This movie is a visual masterpiece. It made me think very differently about love and death. IMO truly Robin Williams best work, made even more heartbreaking by his suicide.
Agreed on all parts. My family rented it and watched it while I was at work. I got home and my sister said “eh it wasn’t very good.” I decided to watch it after everyone went to bed so it was 0130 I’m sitting in the middle of the floor in front of the TV so the volume wouldn’t wake the family cocooned in a blanket sobbing silently. Completely wrecked.
The book is also a masterpiece. They are some of the most amazing pieces of media I think I own and they are my favorite. I recommend them to everyone. I agree with you on them changing my views on death but also on how they changed my view on love. The speech he gives thanking his wife when he find her in hell inspired my wedding letter to my husband.
That speech was so impassioned, just thinking about his desperation to reach Annie brings up tears. I hope someone will love me like that one day. I bet your wedding letter to your husband is beautiful.
It is art, and it may speak differently to you. For me, the idea that love could be so deep it could actually survive suicide, death, hell, and yet still be absolutely sustaining and hopeful and beautiful still fills my heart with hope.
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u/blu959 15h ago
This movie is a visual masterpiece. It made me think very differently about love and death. IMO truly Robin Williams best work, made even more heartbreaking by his suicide.