A movie that will haunt you for a long while after the watching. A story of human resilience through the worst of human suffering, so intelligently and profoundly brought out in the midst of romance and mystery. It unfolds gradually through what is seemingly an eccentric and fun romance, through flashbacks of Sophies survival through the concentration camps.
It’s an intertwining of three lives, which chance to come together to mingle and mesh in many different layers; there's love, hate, jealousy but above all a deep friendship that surpasses all else. Sophie and Nathan are in a volatile and intense romantic liason, and there’s Stingo an aspiring writer from the south who comes into the same apartment. He gets drawn in from the moment he enters, getting besotted by them, as their deep and complex pasts unfold and inevitable falling in love with Sophie while simultaneously caring deeply for Nathan.
Sophie is a polish refugee, from world war 2, carrying the ghosts of the Auschwitz, and when she escapes and attempts suicide she meets with the eccentric and very charming Nathan, to find life again. Must add, it's by far Meryl Streep's most astounding performances.
Stingo grows up through the experience with Sophie and Nathan, from an adolescent dreamer with the freshness of life to being exposed to the pits of human suffering through Sophies experiences and the schizophrenic Nathan.
And somehow, though its all about really sad stories of pain and suffering and deceit, there’s a zip and exuberance to the movie which bring out human resilience at its best.
As titled, they are each faced with the most complex and bewildering of choices, some tragic, some frivolous yet you totally go along with them to understand each.
I've consciously stayed away from anything to do with the Auschwitz, yet this one just grew on me. Strongly recommended for its insights on human resilience, dynamics and complexities of relationships and needless to say, the simply brilliant portrayals.
Saw the essence of the movie in your post.all of us have our own Sophie choices.May be not so inhumane suffering but still intense enough causing deep pain or pure joy.
ReplyDeleteChoice…… Conscious Choice is something to aspire to. It's no wonder Deepika Padukone's video on Choice has gone viral!
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