tambourine33
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This is one of the better films I have seen starring Mel Gibson. A low budget, Australian film, made in the late seventies, it is a real change from his usual offerings. The basic plot outline (promise I won't spoil! :)) is that Gibson plays the title role of Tim, a 24 year-old man who is slightly mentally retarded. Piper Laurie excels as 'Mary Horton' a successful forty-something widow who takes a romantic interest in Tim, but is unsure if a relationship will work.
The thing that struck me about this movie was it's basic principle. It is not uncommon for rich, forty-something men to be seen with attractive, supposedly less-intelligent women. 'Tim' turns this on its head having a rich, older woman hooking up with an attractive, less intelligent younger man. Society frowns on the latter form relationship, I'm not sure why, and it adds an interesting angle to the story.
The only complaint about the film is the ending. They had such a fantastic idea but the movie just...ends. Loose ends are left and to be honest it seemed tacked on or just plain rushed.
It is a good, heartwarming film with a few weepy bits and one-or-two good ideas not explored well enough but still entertaining nonetheless.
The thing that struck me about this movie was it's basic principle. It is not uncommon for rich, forty-something men to be seen with attractive, supposedly less-intelligent women. 'Tim' turns this on its head having a rich, older woman hooking up with an attractive, less intelligent younger man. Society frowns on the latter form relationship, I'm not sure why, and it adds an interesting angle to the story.
The only complaint about the film is the ending. They had such a fantastic idea but the movie just...ends. Loose ends are left and to be honest it seemed tacked on or just plain rushed.
It is a good, heartwarming film with a few weepy bits and one-or-two good ideas not explored well enough but still entertaining nonetheless.
I had the misfortune of seeing this at a friend's movie night. It came highly recommended from one or two of the guys as a lesser-known but good Japanese film.
After about 20 minutes I started checking my watch and by the end had already volunteered to do the washing up. If this movie has a point, then clearly I need someone to explain it for me. There is no discernible plot line, it suffers from clichéd direction, the acting is awful and the effects are as cheap looking as early-eighties straight to video horrors.
The whole film is an excuse to show Japanese girls in really small skirts with the added bonus of having high-school children shoot at and kill each other. It borders on pedophillic (working on the presumption the cast were all over 18, if not then it would be pedophillic), uses over-the-top, bad effects and serves absolutely no purpose as a social commentary or even has one iota of entertainment value.
It is just plain sick.
After about 20 minutes I started checking my watch and by the end had already volunteered to do the washing up. If this movie has a point, then clearly I need someone to explain it for me. There is no discernible plot line, it suffers from clichéd direction, the acting is awful and the effects are as cheap looking as early-eighties straight to video horrors.
The whole film is an excuse to show Japanese girls in really small skirts with the added bonus of having high-school children shoot at and kill each other. It borders on pedophillic (working on the presumption the cast were all over 18, if not then it would be pedophillic), uses over-the-top, bad effects and serves absolutely no purpose as a social commentary or even has one iota of entertainment value.
It is just plain sick.