Reviews of The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County review

Posted : 4 months, 1 week ago on 10 August 2009 11:43 (A review of The Bridges of Madison County)

One of the few directors that makes me wanna watch all of his movies. This in particular is very special and probably one of my favourites, if not the favourite that he directed. It tells a history about a war vet called Walt Kowalski that after an event starts to get closer to his neighbor a young Hmong, Thao.
Clint is amazing as always and touching as usual. The character needs a tough man, brave and most of the times rude but he shows all of that and still the soft side that every human being has with some people. He's a lonely man that never got over all of the facts from the past. The relationship with Thao is really simple and with likely father and son moments that are funny and real. They make each other a better person and with everything that happens in the movie, the problems, the people they have to deal with. It's really impressive. I couldn't recommend a better movie and honestly, it looks much better than I tought it was.

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A Bridge Too Far

Posted : 8 months ago on 16 April 2009 07:07 (A review of The Bridges of Madison County)

A truly romantic story of how the escapist fantasy high/feeling that initially results with falling in love must eventually be realistically dealt with, as the conditions & responsibilities of one's current situation come quickly creeping back in. This movie always reminds of something I heard once: that couples pairing up for the sake of true love is still a relatively young concept in the context of human history. That we as both a society & a species over-all, have not evolved enough yet to be able to deal & accept each other in a manner that would be considered as total unconditonal love (which is the only real love). And it is because of this that the world population has yet been unable to formulate an effective means of discussion that would truly begin a process of unity between it's racial, social & in this case, gender factions. Maybe, like this film depicts, this is why so many make decisions more for the sake of a security based on social & financial reasons than what is right for us on an emotional level. And as they impeded on Robert Kincaid (Eastwood) & Francesca Johnson (Streep), decisions which may impede on our ability to follow our hearts & therefore sway us, individually and socially, from a path that would lead to true love before it's too late.



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True Love

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago on 14 July 2008 08:49 (A review of The Bridges of Madison County)

If not for Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, maybe this great history would have of lost and it have if transformed into in more one usual Hollywood history about the ''love''. BUT NOT! Meryl and Clint are incredible together!!!! They have a incredible chemistry, only with the expression of them eyes, you can feel all the emotion. The scene of the rain for example, gosh... nothing of words at that moment, only them face expressions, Francesca fighting with herself ... you feel all sadness and wish to cry ''Go!!! Get out of this car, and goes to him'' but, unfortunately, she never goes ...
A great movie about the true love.

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