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Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Tom_Nashville This often gets overlooked in movies, so I just want to mention the music score written by Don Davis. It is absolutely beautiful! Very haunting, and fits the somber tone of the film so well. I bought a copy of this movie as much for the music as for the story. Also, I can identify with Tommy about the trains. I am a railfan and have always loved to hear those diesels and the sound of the horns, close up or off in the distance, especially at night. Gives me a chill just thinking about it!

CountZero313 A leading psychiatrist has his world turned upside down by a tragic family event. He shuns patients, until being drawn back by a young man who witnessed his father kill his mother, but seems strangely unaffected by the event.A great script that respects the audience, leaving a lot of information off-screen. When the story moves forward a few years and Garcia and his wife have separated, we fill in the blanks automatically and never have to be told why it happened. Tommy turns up with a car, and we know fine well how he got it, some despicable act cleverly left to our imaginations. Tommy is astoundingly, creepily normal given his circumstances, until his psychosis explodes suddenly. After that he tries in vain to get it back in the box. Garcia has never been better, every inch the grief-stricken father, his expressions nuanced and painful. He handles his 'revelation' in a prison scene near the end with aplomb.The one downside is a maudlin, overbearing score that draws too much attention to itself.This is a film that deserves to be better known. Thrillers with this kind of plot seldom have such multi-layered characters, or believable families and settings. An intelligent, rewarding film that I look forward to watching again.

curleigh_ When I picked up this movie on the rental rack and read the first line on the back of the box, it read "In the tradition of PRIMAL FEAR..." I immediately put back all the other movies that I was even considering renting, and I rented "The Unsaid." PRIMAL FEAR is my FAVORITE movie, so I had high hopes for 'Unsaid.' -mistake. It probably wasn't 45 mins into the movie that I figured out the "big twist." There were just too many clues, which of course I won't say. In one of the other postings, someone said that, generally, American audiences have a tougher time accepting the twist than Europenas do. Well, being an American, I'll take that as a compliment. I'm not saying that this movie is a complete waste of time, but this film doesn't come anywhere NEAR the intensity of PRIMAL FEAR. Then again, not many do.

Jaye02 I really enjoyed THE UNSAID a lot due especially to its psychological edge. I think the actors did a great job "becoming" the characters, especially Trevor Blumas who played the son and Vincent Karthieser who played Tommy. Both of them were able to seem so different and also seem so close to being the same simultaneously--which helps complicate matters for Garcia's character.In the plot, however, I was a tad disappointed with the writers because the story line seemed to jump around a lot in an extremely unorganized fashion which got a little annoying.*A FEW SPOILERS AHEAD*I read some comments that have related the sexual abuse of Michael Hunter's son by his psychiatrist with homosexuality, and while I find it an interesting point of view that were Hunter's son in a relationship with an older woman would he have seem less disturbed by it, I can't help but think that it wasn't really what the movie was getting at.My reasons for that assumption is taking into account the relationship b/w the man and Hunter's son and the woman and Tommy. The man was Kyle's psychiatrist and the woman was Tommy's mother. And I think the roles both those characters play to the boys is something that seems to be overlooked. I think the movie is really focusing on the fact that both of the adults were in roles of authority, which means they took advantage of the trust and level of dependence both Kyle and Tommy had between them. And looking at it from that point of view I think Michael Hunter's feelings of disturbance are justified.*SPOILERS ENDED*