This here is an interesting film. It's got good dialogue, good acting, interesting relatable relationship themes, makes for a poignant take on life and death, and provides the framework as a story and plot and film ultimately to deliver those strong points.
But I believe it's overrated in how this was cinema giant Henry Fonda's last gig, added his own real-life daughter plays the role of his daughter in the film and had other cinema-legend Katharine Hepburn playing alongside him...this film has harvested more credit than is due (thanks to status).
It's a good film, but it's flawed. It's not nearly as powerful and profound a story or experience as one would have you think, like, at all - and is trying to establish more than its frame can intrinsically handle. There's as if a shortcut between what the film-makers meant to establish as far as morality and ideas and themes, and what actually happens. Like there's too much intended for too little in the story. You need to provide the items in the plot to produce those big powerful moments, and the film only settles for fairly underwhelming events.
Good film, but not great. 7/10.
But I believe it's overrated in how this was cinema giant Henry Fonda's last gig, added his own real-life daughter plays the role of his daughter in the film and had other cinema-legend Katharine Hepburn playing alongside him...this film has harvested more credit than is due (thanks to status).
It's a good film, but it's flawed. It's not nearly as powerful and profound a story or experience as one would have you think, like, at all - and is trying to establish more than its frame can intrinsically handle. There's as if a shortcut between what the film-makers meant to establish as far as morality and ideas and themes, and what actually happens. Like there's too much intended for too little in the story. You need to provide the items in the plot to produce those big powerful moments, and the film only settles for fairly underwhelming events.
Good film, but not great. 7/10.