Night Train to Lisbon Reviews

When I watched this movie, I immediately remembered the novel (Alchemist) by the Brazilian writer (Paulo Coelho), by the way the novel was narrated by Jeremy Irons and it is available online on sites such as (SoundCloud) , we go back to the movie and I apologize for going out of the main topic, the film is a summary of what is said to be a masterpiece and basically its focus is research for self and for sharing with others and the film has a very great atmosphere between sunny and cloudy weather and the best part is that the first movie I watch starring : (Jeremy Irons), and his performance was excellent, and I liked the brilliant flashback style and the restoration of the memories of the past though. It's a painful bite, but it's really a very interesting & enjoyable movie , Although there are many sentences and phrases that are not at all compatible with religions and the divine which I did not like at all.


عند مشاهدتي لهذا الفيلم تذكرت بشكلٍ فوري رواية (الخيميائي) للكاتب البرازيلي الكبير (باولو كويلو) والتي بالمناسبة رواها صوتياً جيريمي آيرونز وهي متوفرةٌ على الإنترنت على مواقع مثل (ساوند كلاود) ، نعود للفيلم وأعتذر عن الخروج عن الموضوع الرئيسي ، الفيلم خلاصة ما يقال عنه أنه تحفةٌ فنية وبالأساس محوره هو البحث عن الذات وعن المشاركة مع الآخرين والفيلم إتسم بأجواءٍ رائعةٍ للغاية مابين (جوٍ غائمٍ - جوٍ مشمسٍ) وأفضل ما في الأمر أنه أول فيلمٍ أشاهده من بطولةِ (جيريمي آيرونز) وآداؤه كان ممتازاً وأعجبني أسلوب الفلاش باك الرائع وإستعادة ذكريات الماضي رغم أن بعضها أليمٌ ولكن حقاً فيلمٌ جديرٌ بالمشاهدة  حقاً بالرغم من وجود الكثير من العبارات والجمل التي لاتتناسب إطلاقاً مع الأديان والذات الإلهية والتي لم تعجبني على الإطلاق . 

I am glad that I saw this movie. It was based on the novel, which tells about a Swiss professor called Raimund who saves a young woman from jumping off the bridge. Then the girl disappears, so the Raimund got her red coat and a book. He starts to read it to find why she was trying to kill herself. That he finds something deep inside which is more than he had in his life. So he abandons his class in half way and pursue the thrilling adventurous quest to find more about the person he read in the book. Everything he was curious about is only growing bigger than he imagined. He meets many people regarding that book and they tell the same stories from each of their own perspectives which happened in back 70s. Now, Rainmund asks one question himself after knowing everything and it might be yours too if you saw the movie.

The movie looked exact copy of a novel, like I read some novel. The story telling which transforms the screen constantly between now and 70s were clearly maintained with its destination until the last 10-20 minutes. Once you know the final conclusion, you may say is that it's because some of you might expect something bigger. But the middle aged or older guys who had experienced life very well will know the meaning of it. Yeah, I believe the movie might more suitable for those kinda audience than youngsters.

It was a nice performance by such a great British actor Jeremy Irons. Like I said the story had two diversions, one which set in present time and another in 70s. The present time tale was totally ruled by Jeremy Irons, I liked it more than the 70s tale. The problem with flashback story was its ending, it was very simple, especially I expected bit detailed explanation behind character Amadeu's death. And also his failed relationship with Estafania could have been more reasonable. However, I am not disappointed with the movie, it was a quite nice drama, in fact awesome. I am not a book fanatic but I love movies based on the novels, especially movie like 'Night Train to Lisbon' I won't miss. I say you must go for it if you like the movies which gives more priority to innovative characters than usual theme.

8/10