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hartzofspace
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 Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:23 am Post subject: Anyone see Snow Cake? |
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I just watched this, about a HFA woman who lost her only daughter to a car crash. I'm still processing how I feel about it. Anyone else see it, and what did you think?
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:55 am Post subject: Re: Anyone see Snow Cake? |
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| hartzofspace wrote: | | I just watched this, about a HFA woman who lost her only daughter to a car crash. I'm still processing how I feel about it. Anyone else see it, and what did you think? |
Liked it, both in comparison to the few portrayals of ASD on film & as an "indie" movie. My "NT" bf & I enjoyed it together, we appreciate the "low-key" aspects of it-yet it wasn't boring, either. We also watched "Mozart & The Whale"-he liked that better than I did, though I did like the book (that "inspired" the story).
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I wanted to watch it (only saw the trailer) because of Alan Rickman.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:24 am Post subject: Anyone see Snow Cake |
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Having her Cake topic
I had heard of this movie but I did not ge around to watching it. I saw the trailer and the Alan Rickman interview. I am getting it at the first opportunity. I am familiar with the actors and actresses and I am glad the setting is Canadian. Of course, with all that snow!
Thanks hartzofspace, for mentioning this. 
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It has some strange aspects to it, like some villagers over there (but maybe that is a prerequisite to life that far North).
It was an nice film, but not a really good one.
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i thought it was a good movie!
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hartzofspace
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I think the part where the HFA woman answers the door to the character played by Alan Rickman, had a big impact on me. When she didn't make eye contact, and was twirling her hair, she reminded me so much of myself, that I actually felt embarrassed, LOL. And when she didn't want anyone in her kitchen, too.
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| but her way of dealing with the tragedy of her daughter's death I felt was under-developed. |
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I saw this movie but I didn't like Sigourney Weaver's acting. I don't think she pulled it off. Also, I don't think an HFA character would behave like that toward her daughter. Miscast. They should've gotten a better actress.
Alan Rickman will always be good, although he did have the easier role in this movie. |
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| I was also put off by Sigourney Weaver's performance. I just didn't buy it. So a lot of it was hard to watch for me, though Alan Rickman was great as always. |
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