Life Itself (2018)
8/10
One of those 'celebrate life' movies.
15 March 2020
Beautiful movie. Amazing script. Sad, but still uplifting. Scripts like these that has story's intertwining with each other, are kind of rare, but they do come about every now and then, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This is one of the times it works, I think. So, good job on the writer.

Actually can't see any major flaws of this film. Script is good, acting is good, screenplay is good, cinematography is good, music is good. But there must be some flaws? Perhaps that it's all made up? So it doesn't really tell a "true" story of life. But I actually don't see that as a flaw. Perhaps that it doesn't really have any suspense? But still it's very emotionally moving and even if you kind of know were it's going at one point when you get the jest of the movie, still there are interesting details to the story that is thought provoking and interesting to follow, and the actors does a good job. The Spanish actors were really good.

Hmm... Maybe not a full score just beacuse I personally can't help to find movies like this a bit corny, no matter what. But it did manage to move me at the same time. I'm probably just too emotionally blocked for this kind of stuff, I suppose, to a degree. But this movie actually made me cry a bit, and it was probably at least a couple of years ago a movie made me cry, don't really remember, but I watch a lot of movies and I don't cry often, so this movie at least achieved that.

It's actually is nice sometimes, with movies that is very obviously trying to move you, you kind of get surprised when they actually succeeds with it. How corny this movie might be, I can't take away from it that it actually hit me a bit. Have to say this is one of the better movies of this sort, that I have seen. Yes, I would recommend it to anyone that is in to drama or romance (even if it's not really a romantic movie in the classical sense).

Anyway, thanks for reading.
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