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Re: The TEMERITY! (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear wasp: It seems as if sfarmer76 is a 36 year-old Georgian, of a service family, who is interested in photography, computers, and liberal politics. He is passionate about a number of things, including his opposition to the Iraq War.
You can find out quite a bit about him -- he seems very open -- in his "20 or so things about me" entry for corpgent:
http://www.epinions.com/content_3239157892
I also wish he had been more specific in his criticism, but I was not very disturbed by his comment.
Thank you for the defense.
[Macresarf1]
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Apr 29 '03
1:48 pm PDT
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The TEMERITY! (Reply to this comment)
by thewasp
Who is sfarmer? Asking you for a REWRITE, for God's sake! Naturally I disagree with most of what you said -- I really liked this movie -- but still! You SAID what you were thinking in the review!
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Apr 28 '03
11:18 am PDT
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Re: I don't know what you were thinking... (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear sfarmer76: I guess in matters of perception and taste, we always have to come down to our own judgment.
As I said in my review, I had hopes for HARRISON'S FLOWERS, but to me, it just was not a very affecting film because I came to doubt its credibility. Sarah's reactions to reports of Harrison's disappearance and presumed death, while on paper must have seemed moving, in execution were unconvincing. Does everyone from the elevator boy to the Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek go pop-eyed over such an event? Perhaps, but the presentation and Sarah's subsequent faint, etc, did not get it for me.
Did it not seem strange to you that Sarah, a person untrained for search and rescue, would leave her two children, only shortly after the presumption of their father's death, to run off from them to a strange land being torn apart, with which she was presumably not familiar?
I did like the early scenes supposedly in Croatia, ground I have been over in my time, but the running, jumping, rolling antics of this suburban house wife, a speed freak and his over-weight, middle-aged pal soon lost my reviving belief and sympathy.
The passionate relationship Sarah and Harrison seemed more a given than one demonstrated. Andie MacDowell, not a very deep actress, had to carry most of the picture while David Strathairn, a superb actor, just never had enough to do in HARRISON'S FLOWERS to make him effective.
Finally, the gross reduction of the complex geopolitical and ethnic situation in the Yugoslavia of 1991 to good (or okay) guys and bad guys insulted my battered intelligence.
I am happy, however, that you found so many worthwhile things in HARRISON'S FLOWERS. I regret that I did not, and so I stand by my opinion.
All the best.
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 18 '02
2:12 pm PST
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I don't know what you were thinking... (Reply to this comment)
by sfarmer76
when you wrote this review, but you might want to take a stab at a rewrite, because I really enjoyed this complex movie a lot.
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Mar 17 '02
5:25 pm PST
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