Cathardincu
Surprisingly incoherent and boring
SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Reno Rangan
Another film based on the book of the same name for Ritesh Batra. Also second film to release in the same calendar year. Incidentally, both films dealt with aging people. The story was told from a man whose romance life has not that successful. He recalls his university graduate days, like how he met a mysterious woman and later went to meet her parents.Following, the other events, the film also told the present time developments. Where he has divorced and lives alone. Executing fatherly duty to his pregnant daughter, the tale begins to take a fresh twist. So he tries his best to uncover the truth. In the end what he finds brings an end to the narration.I love films abut aged people. This is one of my favourite themes that I enjoy watching them as I do for children's films. Wonderful casting. Of course it looked a bit long tale, but totally worth it. Slow in pace and not all the way to-the-point kind of narration.You might think some parts are unnecessary, but overall a nicely written screenplay. The end twist was simple. It was not very clear, because the film was almost a PG certificate. The difference is it talks about the grown up stuff. So it was understood with all the detailed clues what the twist is, despite not shown in the picture. A little underrated, but no masterpiece. I surely recommend it, mainly for the grown ups.7.5/10
wwiiboomer
I enjoyed this screen version of the award winning novel by Julian Barnes, "The Sense of an Ending." The show was intriguing, yet, baffling for not reading the book. I was looking forward to my just rewards that you find revealed in the last act of most mysteries. However, no cigar. Reluctantly I had to do some fact finding to come to some sense of closure. The labor was well worth the effort because the story was compelling for all the right reasons. Veteran actors, quality cinematography and screenplay adaption. These qualities were subtle yet clever adding to the complexity of the story. In my opinion, this subtleness culminated to a stunning end ... but wait, what just happened? Huh?Piquing curiosity led my interest to the two poets who's poems were introduced. I was hopeful they would shed some light into making sense so I could bring this to closure. I looked them up, put them into context (my version in short form) as such ...The affirmation of life, excerpts from the poet Phillip Larkin, "Audabe" ... I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges grow light. The sky is white as clay, with no sun--work has to be done.The celebration of life, excerpts from the poet Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" ... Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of light.My intent is not to baffle, rather, challenge your wits for this is one show you'll have to watch for yourself and hopefully its mystery will reveal itself to you. Perhaps then you can tell me something I don't know ... (SMILE)
vishnu-dileep08
Summary (no spoilers)This movie is about a man who gets haunted by his past and is presented with a legacy which makes him rethink his whole current situation in life.My Review (no spoilers)The plot of this movie was above average with a slow start and a good ending. But a bit confusing it could have been explained in a much easier way. The genres suggest that this movie was a drama and mystery there was nothing much mystery about this movie but a good drama with a really good message shown to the viewers. What I learned from watching this movie was that even when you're really angry think before you react because the consequences can be unchangeable and really painful to us. The acting shown in this movie was really good by each of them.YES I would recommend people to watch this movie.My Rating 7/10
gradyharp
This very quiet, sensitive and mesmerizing film adaptation of Julian Barnes' 2011 magnum opus THE SENSE OF AN ENDING has been adapted for the screen by Nick Payne and directed by Ritesh Batra. The magic of the novel remains intact despite the need to move form time period to time period (youth to old age) that often can disrupt the flow of a message. This is doubtless the combination of the director's sensibilities coupled with an extraordinary cast of some of England's finest actors.This intense story follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage (to Harriet Walker) and family (lesbian pregnant daughter Michelle Dockery) and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world. The interweaving of Tony's memories of his past (Billy Howle as the young Tony) as altered by the present struggle to attain a diary left to him by the mother (Emily Mortimer) of his old flame Veronica (Charlotte Rampling) that contained information of his 'affair' with the young Veronica (Freya Mavor) and her eventual husband Adrian Finn (Joe Alwyn) who committed suicide apparently after receiving a letter of hurt from Tony make Tony as an older man reconsider the facts of his life.The film is blessed with a stellar cast and with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication. The film is long, cerebral, and requires involvement on the part of the audience to fully appreciate the subtleties of Julian Barnes original novel. Highly Recommended.
