This movie requires a lot of patience, I think, but boy does it pay off. I think I’ve pretty much seen everything as far as shockers and horrors and violence in movies is concerned, so it always catches me off-guard when a rarity like this comes along with an ending like this has and shakes me badly. I even knew it was coming, ‘cos I’d read another review… god knows how I’d have reacted if it wasn’t expected, and until I read this other review (about halfway through the movie, I was surfing the net), it wasn’t expected at all. This is powerful stuff.

Diane Keaton and Richard Gere are, quite simply, insane in their roles. This is a movie I’ll watch again, just to see if I missed anything, see if I can make up my mind whether it’s all in the ending or what… the subplot of Keaton teaching deaf kids reminded me a lot of Mandy (a.k.a. Crash of Silence) which was nice. That’s the thing – this subplot was so sweet in so many ways, just a pure, great teacher story, which in contrast to the main story is just whacky. It reminds me of something I was thinking a few days ago about Adrian Lyne’s Lolita – even though it might be billed as shocking, or whatever, the bulk of it is entirely tame, something your grandmother could watch, and then boom it hits you with Exorcist tactics in the ending (or in Lolita’s case, Frank Langella’s penis flapping in the wind). So it’s not for everyone, clearly… I don’t know if this is a shame or what… I liked both stories, if like is the right word.

Like I said, this is a must-watch-again.

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