Goodmorning all! The sun is shining and it's weekend!
I finally managed to watch Minority Report last night. Surprisingly good, looked amazing! I loved the gadgets and the wooden balls (one should think that they'd have thought out something a bit more technological, no?)...nonono, not Tom Cruise's...
Very slick, dead clever, but as usual, Steven Spielberg HAS to end the eye-extravanganza with a soppy ending that 'ties it all together'. Why does it have to be tied? Couldn't it just have ended when Max von Sydow dies? (Did I just ruin it for people there? Sorry.) I don't need to be coached into believing that they lived happily ever after. I don't need closure. He did the same thing in 'Schindler's List', beautiful film, unnecessary, deeply manipulative ending. At least we were spared the stereotypical Tom Cruise speech, which he otherwise incorporates in most of his film, a la the 'In this world...'-speech in Jerry McGuire.
I do love Samantha Morton, though.

And that's it! I'm off into the sunshine! Now that's an ending for you!
posted by charlotte at 10:34 - comment