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DVD Enduring Love (Widescreen Edition)
A red hot-air balloon floating gracefully over the green English countryside leads to a shocking death in Enduring Love, an eerie and hypnotic movie based on a novel by Ian McEwan. Two men tried and failed to help, and afterwards Joe (Daniel Craig, Sylvia, The Mother) finds himself being stalked by the hungry-eyed Jed (Rhys Ifans, Vanity Fair, Human Nature). Like a gangly wraith, Jed follows Joe and begs him to recognize the passionate love Jed feels certain was sparked by the balloon accident. Jed's obsession crawls into Joe's head and his life, clawing at his happy relationship with his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Morvern Callar, Minority Report) and derailing Joe into an obsessive spiral of his own. Enduring Love builds the taut delirium of a Hitchcock movie. Ifans, best known for his comic performances, curls his tall frame into a seemingly helpless but creepily aggressive shuffle; the haunted eyes of Craig and Morton make the crumbling of their relationship as suspenseful as Jed's stalking. Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Persuasion) uses fresh, jarring images and sinuous visual rhythms to craft a tight thriller with unsettling emotional layers. --Bret Fetzer
An Extraordinary Event Brought Them Together. A Deadly Obsession Will Tear Them Apart!
Enduring Love claims to be a psychological thriller, but comes across as more of a drama then a thriller. The story moves along quite slowly and the overall tone of the film is somewhat dry. The story does take a few interesting turns, and does keep you guessing at times, the story was not suspenseful enough to keep my eyes peeled to the screen for the span of the film.
One thing I can say about this film is that the story is different than anything that I have seen before. It touches upon some odd yet creative human elements, and the acting is quite good. Here is the stories sypnosis... Joe (Daniel Craig, Road to Perdition) is an accomplished writer and professor whose rational life is thrust into a downward spiral of guilt after witnessing a freak, fatal ballooning accident while picnicking with girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Minority Report). Jed (Rhys Ifans, Notting Hill), another man involved in that fateful day, seeks out Joe looking for consolidation and a way to make sense of this tragedy they've both witnessed. Jed soon becomes as inescapable to Joe as his guilt, and both men find themselves hurtling towards a final, terrifying choice driven by the destructive nature of obsession or the true endurance of love.
It would have been interesting to get some further insight into this film through some featurettes, commentary and/or deleted scenes, but all we get here are a collection of trailers of Paramount DVD's already released or soon to be released.
Is this a great film? Not really. Is it worth a watch? Sure. The story is interesting an different, and the acting performances are note worthy. This disc audio track is rather impressive, and the video is adequate. I would have loved a few extras... but that was not in the cards for this release.
You Can't Turn Away
Watching this film is a bit like driving slowly past an accident and as disturbing as it is to see the destruction, you can't turn away. As everyone else has said, the opening scene is exciting and pulls you into the story. The acting is first rate, but the storyline meanders with several subplots concerning the man who died, the family he left behind and whether or not he was with someone who fled the scene when he died. The viewer may be left wondering, what really happened? This film reminds me of the original version of the film Blowup, with its trick of the eye mystery.
The synopsis says that the character who later becomes the stalker was the pilot of the air balloon, but if that was true, then what was his relationship with the boy in the balloon's basket? And why didn't Joe, who spent countless hours visiting the wife of the dead man and researching the causes of obsession, try to get information from the boy?
In spite of an uneven plot and an ending that still leaves one wondering exactly what happened, the movie is unique and worth viewing.
painful, but not in a good way
This movie is tries to be profound but ends up being monotonous. I sat through it for no other reason than to find out what happened and wished i hadn't.
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