Movie Review By
C Devidasan
Movie Review: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY “Don’t you see, I love you so much that I cannot think of restraining you for a moment," said Francesca as Robert held her in his hands. It was an intimate scene, so beautifully carved, so intensely made. I sat up on my sofa; besides me sat my wife, Sujatha and I found that she too was equally engrossed in the movie. Clint Eastwood in the role of Robert looked dashingly handsome and Meryl Streep as Francesca looked divinely attractive. Both were well into their 50s. It was almost midnight. The large TV screen played magic and I simply forgot how tired I had been with the long drive I had to take in the evening.
We are the choices we make!
The movie, “The Bridges of Madison County” was slowly unfolding before us. Robert Kincaid, a photographer with Nat Geo arrives at Madison County, Iowa to shoot a photographic essay on the covered bridges in that area where he meets Francesca whose husband and two grown up children were away for four days. One thing led to other and Robert spent four days with her. Though they were maddeningly in love, Francesca decides to part ways as they sat in the flickering light of candles while they ate the dinner for the last time. The movie directed by the iconic Clint Eastwood with his masterly creativity and unparalleled acting capacity of both he himself and Meryl Streep, is a romantic poem written in celluloid of par excellence. The music touched the inner core and the background of the farmland and an old house where Francesca lived in the sleepy country-side acted together in capturing the meeting and parting of the two souls who just could not think even for a moment to part ways and yet decided to part.
«We are the choices we make» said Francesca in a voice that was shivering with emotions and sitting in the sofa, I could feel the heat of her breath on my cheeks as if I was the one who was holding her! The tall, dark, handsome maverick lover Clint Eastwood stood tall in the movies and the damsel Meryl Streep with her emotion-charged face and glittering blue eyes that resembled a blue lake when flooded proved that she was worthy of being nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Actress in 1996. As the movie folded in the midnight, I felt the warmth of the two hands on my shoulder and the throbbing thud of the heart that beat inside my wife. It was a good movie and we both enjoyed it.
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