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Rating:  -
When the teenage Hemingway fell in love with the older Agnes during WWI in the Italian front, their affair was doomed from the start. Romances during wartime have an excitment but it doesn't last past the battles. A Farewell to Arms is based on Hemingway's youthful love with Agnes and their story lives on in fiction. When Agnes breaks off the affair while in Europe, it triggers a heartbreak so intense that Hemingway's literary voice is born. Too bad the end of one war triggered the start of another inside Hemingway's famous inner rages and demons.
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Despite many of the reviews, I think this is quite a nice piece. It is a sad love story based upon the first love of Ernest Hemmingway.
Chris O'Donnell plays the young Hemmingway as a young American adventurer seeking excitement in northern Italy during the end of the first world war as a corpsman. He would rather be a soldier but he is too young and did not make it through the physical so he signs up for the Red Cross. While seeking excitement up on the battle line when he is supposed to be serving coffee behind the lines, he distinguishes himself by heroism as the trench is overrun and is wounded in the process. That brings him to a hospital where he meets the nurse who enraptures him.
Sandra Bullock plays the nurse. She is competent, caring and considers herself too old for the young Hemmingway. Still, she is attracted to him and fights a losing battle against his "charm". Meanwhile, just about everyone else wants her attentions as well. She finds herself being torn in differing directions by her heart on the one hand and her intellect on the other.
What makes this film difficult is that Sandra's character of the nurse is a very likeable person. O'Donnell's Hemmingway manages to be likeable as well except when his arrogance and vanity get in the way; I'm talking about Hemmingway's, not O'Donnell's. You get through this film thinking that she is just too good for him and that he doesn't deserve her. You also get a bit angry at her treatment of him at some points.
Love stories have to have a bit of conflict to make them interesting. This one has more than it's share. For that reason, the romance seems to be one destined for failure.
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A Romantic movie with a sad ending. The only reason I think this movie isnt super great is because the emotional connection between the two main characters isnt developed enough. Its kind of like they fell in love the next day and thats it. I wish their getting to love eachother would have been more focused on. Still its not a bad movie.
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Why some have condemned this movie for the lack of story line, I praise what factual information they were able to find although there was never any final meeting between Hemmingway and Agnes. All correspondence was done through letters between them after Hemmingway went home from the war and little is known of the letters Hemmingway wrote Angus since a later boyfriend of Angus destroyed all of Hemmingway's letters in a jealous rage. If there was in final face to face meeting, both their lives may have very different. More than likely the two would have continued far different lives together. Hemmingway may have never gone on to become the great writer he was and Agnes would have never continued her nursing career that she seemed much more married to, or a European whirlwind romance may have faded into the first of the many failed marriages Hemmingway went through.
Although a bit contrived from reality; the story line does make an impact emotionally.
In my opinion though Sir Richard Attenborough should have had his lead actors at least read A Farewell to Arms before attempting their roles. It might have helped out with acting that was a little flat and emotionless at times like they didn't have enough material on the original characters and were trying to ad lib. Still it's very much worthwhile watching this sometimes fictional account of a young Hemmingway and his first and lost love.
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I was first struck my the musical score which was so rich and
colorful. Add to that the superb performances on the parts
of Sandra Bullock and Chris O'Donnell and you have a winner. It is therefore no suprise that the film won high honors. I think Sir Richard Attenborough's direction was suberb in every sense of the word. Such an evocotave story with war as a backdrop truly brought forth an emotional tension that is hard to describe. I also thought the supporting actors must have been hand picked because they fitted so easily in to the very fabric of the film. I certainly give this film a roaring "Five Star"
rating.
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