can a movie review make you cry?
i just read roger ebert's review of "shoah." he periodically reviews great movies, so this review was written just a week ago, of a movie that was released in 1985--apparently they showed it downtown last week and i wish i had known. here's the review:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101229/REVIEWS08/101229981/-1/RSS
the review itself can make you cry--well, it made me cry, anyway. i saw the movie many years ago when it was released. it's nine hours long--a friend and i went for two evenings to see it. nine hours is a long time to sit watching a movie, but somehow the physical difficulty seems appropriate to the occasion. it was an amazing thing to see at the time--but i only remember snippets of the movie--so i feel like i should see it again. at the time, there were far more people who could tell the story--who could bear witness. i'm so glad that he thought to make the movie back then while there was distance but still time.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101229/REVIEWS08/101229981/-1/RSS
the review itself can make you cry--well, it made me cry, anyway. i saw the movie many years ago when it was released. it's nine hours long--a friend and i went for two evenings to see it. nine hours is a long time to sit watching a movie, but somehow the physical difficulty seems appropriate to the occasion. it was an amazing thing to see at the time--but i only remember snippets of the movie--so i feel like i should see it again. at the time, there were far more people who could tell the story--who could bear witness. i'm so glad that he thought to make the movie back then while there was distance but still time.