You can't stay indifferent to a movie with a name like this. The general theme looks familiar and the lead actor is brilliant, so why doesn't this movie make your heart break? Somewhere along the way it just stays enigmatic without telling us why.
It wants to keep the secrecy thorough all of it, but it doesn't stick - at some points it just melts and the main character arrives to its purpose, but it doesn't land.
Harrold Fry gets a letter from out of the bloom and learns that his good friend - Queenie is dying somewhere in the long-distanced village of Berwick-upon-Tweed. He is writing a short letter to his old-time friend and goes to mail it through the post office.
After several mail boxes doesn't do the job for him as an appropriate candidate for letter sending he meets a girl in the gas station, get inspired and start to walk to meet Queenie.
Like an old Forest Gump he starts to walk because he feels like. And a lot like the main hero from "The Straight Story" Fry meets interesting people and characters along the way, influence them and they influence his journey and then he became Forest Gump for a little longer and then the movie just ends, without any particular reason. Just because.
It could have been much more exciting, moving and exceptional, but it remains in the boundaries of a Gimmick and not beyond. It is nice, almost touching and there is a real motivation and a story behind the scenes, but it is not translated correctly to the viewers and thus keep them numb for the main portion of the movie.
It wants to keep the secrecy thorough all of it, but it doesn't stick - at some points it just melts and the main character arrives to its purpose, but it doesn't land.
Harrold Fry gets a letter from out of the bloom and learns that his good friend - Queenie is dying somewhere in the long-distanced village of Berwick-upon-Tweed. He is writing a short letter to his old-time friend and goes to mail it through the post office.
After several mail boxes doesn't do the job for him as an appropriate candidate for letter sending he meets a girl in the gas station, get inspired and start to walk to meet Queenie.
Like an old Forest Gump he starts to walk because he feels like. And a lot like the main hero from "The Straight Story" Fry meets interesting people and characters along the way, influence them and they influence his journey and then he became Forest Gump for a little longer and then the movie just ends, without any particular reason. Just because.
It could have been much more exciting, moving and exceptional, but it remains in the boundaries of a Gimmick and not beyond. It is nice, almost touching and there is a real motivation and a story behind the scenes, but it is not translated correctly to the viewers and thus keep them numb for the main portion of the movie.