10.15.07

Sophie’s Choice

Posted in classic, drama, reviews at 1:32 pm by FilmFemme

Since the title Sophie’s Choice has actually become its own cliche to describe a really difficult choice, I figured I should probably actually watch this movie.  Here’s what it taught me:

• Meryl Streep is not only a really super great actress, she also is really gorgeous.  And really good at Polish accents.
• The Holocaust was really shitty.
• Peter MacNicol isn’t just that creepy guy from Ghostbusters II who was on Numb3rs and is now on 24.
• Kevin Kline.  Drama Queen.  (I already knew this).

This movie is really good and I’m going to be haunted by the Meryl Streep close up that they use while she is telling her concentration camp story for a long time.  I bet it was really awesome to see in the theatre before you knew the big secret about what ‘Sophie’s choice’ actually was.

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