The Crying Game

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Rey P Mar 26, 2019 1st, 2nd and maybe even the third act is full of something to cry about.

Leia L Jul 26, 2018 The Crying Game did need more thriller elements in its second act, but the romance there is very complex, intriguing and just excellent. The performances are terrific across the board with the highlight being superb Stephen Rea. The film's so well edited, directed and particularly well scripted with a twisty, authentic, constantly intriguing and thematically rich and daring story. It's gripping and mysterious to watch from the start while also being pleasantly reminiscent of Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' in its third act. The highlight, though, is an unexpected and emotionally powerful, unforgettable first act. See more

Finn S Jun 21, 2018 The Crying Game is a 1992 English-language thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan. An enthralling movie with a number of twists along the way. It features solid performances all round, with Davidson being mesmerising. The screenplay is cleverly written and the most famous revelation of all time is unforgettable. AAN GGND 1001 See more

Harry L May 1, 2018 It is such a wonderfully weird movie, built from odd and unexpected turns at every corner-not just the now-too-well-known twist, but from top to bottom strange and unpredictable choices. These are not just narrative twists to keep the mystery tense and the viewer gripped; more often, these are provocative bends to the more traditional filmic frame, gendering bending being the most obvious, but also the casting of Whitaker, an American, to play a British soldier, or the almost deconstructive loop between host and hostage, hunter and hunted. It is a film situated at the liminal space of identity: We are in-between creatures, emerging from a primordial bisexuality (as Freud said), never fully home in our country, never fully escaped when we leave, never purely of a single race or class, never merely thriller nor simply romance, never wholly whole, always in need of others. Destruction and violence, rather, are the result of attempts to stabilize and to narrow that nature into just one camp: The racist and protectionist IRA trying to unify/make whole their nation; heteronormativity writ large, repressing very basic homosocial desires until they flood forth; the socialized expectation of polar partnerships, one active and one passive, one top and one bottom. What feels weird is how the movie exposes these dichotomies, slides between them, and attempts to carve out a different space, a different vision of being-with that, as in the climatic twist, exposes the strange and ungraspable nature of the human condition. See more

Rey P Feb 14, 2018 Just as the story seemed easy to understand, it takes a sharp turn. The twist may or may not be easy to pick up, but undoubtably helps build the tension and high-rising ending to this masterpiece of thought and ideas. See more

Draco R Feb 1, 2018 A really nice story, but with limitations. Some are due to the passing of time so it is not the movie's fault. Some definitely are though: there are parts which are not believable or sloppily done. C'amon dude, you really didn't know it? Pfffff See more

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