Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 22, 2005 | | Summary | Sensational | Content
 | The art if storytelling is not dead.
Twisting and turning, the main character cannot tear himself away, whilst being disgusted he is also intrigued and slowly he is drawn into the depths of experience that is so far removed from his own realm of experience, understanding and belief.
Wowee, what a ride. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 16, 2005 | | Summary | Mad story with mor | Content
| This was one of the best movies I ever saw. Very good actors, almost looked as like they played themselves, they were just so good. Very good story or rather several interwined stories in this one crazy movie which would keep your attention from the very beginning to the very end. It starts as an erotic story - but with a moral, too much sex is no good if nothing else is present. I also liked the atmosphere of the movie - one could feel a touch of Europe while in Paris, the smell of sea breeze while of the ship.
I recommend it highly to all over 18!
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| Rating | | | Date | April 19, 2005 | | Summary | A memorable drama about sex as politics | Content
| Extremely well made, extremely well acted, extremely intense and disturbing, and extremely conscious of areas of the sexual psyche that I'd never seen so honestly explored in a movie. According to Polanski, it is not love and hate which are opposite, but love and indifference. Obsessive sex gives way, at least between the two lovers of Bitter Moon, to a hatred as savage as cold-blooded murder or all-out war.
These extremities of love and hate work themselves out in a game of power and manipulation, and it remains the only vehicle by which these two can merge with one another so as to lose both their independence and the rest of their inhibitions and illusions. In the end, they become so bound up in their mutual need that the sex itself is no longer central. They might as well be prisoners lashed forever to the same stake, learning actually to enjoy the various torments that the other is able to inflict. Freud thought similarly that all sexual love was ultimately a form of masochism--identification with a partner whom one has caused to suffer. These questions are essential as long as the blood continues to throb in us; and, whether or not we find Polanski's story credible (I do), any thinking person would recognize it as a serious attempt to define who we humans are, both as rutting mammals and as something more. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 30, 2004 | | Summary | Beautiful, intense, vile commentary on passion & violence.. | Content
| ...in relationships. I would technically give this film 4.5 stars. It is a biting tribute to how great passion can burn away and turn into resentment and hatred. Sometimes we get so used to intense feelings that we cannot (or do not want) to tell the difference between longing and needing and dependency. In this movie, the lovers display a wide range of emotion that is certainly not unheard of among intense relationships and passionate people. Once they've peaked emotionally and sexually, partners begin to make negative associations about their lives and their current other, and eventually habit, boredom, and general resentment sink in. But the question is, is a love that has ever burned that intensely ever able to completely exhonerate itself? One passionate feeling takes over for another, and the vicious love/hate cycle begins - that's when sometimes it seems better to feel pain than nothing at all.
Self-esteem issues, sadism/masochism, complacency and codependency permeate the relationships in this movie. I think it's an excellent commentary on modern relationships, and definately worth watching for the performances, the ride, and the ending. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 22, 2004 | | Summary | Accccaaip güzel bi film | Content
| Yaw yýllar önce tv de seyretmiþtim, bi daha da yayýnlamadýlar. Çok þaane bi film harbiden. Þimdi de DVD olarak alacam. Ama Türkçe altyazýlý veya dublajlý olarak bulamadým. |
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