Movie Review-- Scent of a Woman
This is the first time I see this movie and to tell the truth, I use a pack of tissue paper for…I can’t think up any reason right on the spot when I was crying, really. But after a while, I think it is because the way Al Pacino acts and the atmospheres the director arrange between Frank and Charlie in the movie.
When two people meet, I think it is difficulties which will cause the change between themselves after they face the difficulty together. (Recently I hear this sentence from the interview of “Blood Diamond” kind of different from them since I adopt it to be suitable in this situation) For example in this movie, Charlie got a dilemma as “to tell the truth or not,” it’s not only a question to him since the teacher want to bribe him by the chance to get into Harvard. I think it is quite unfair while in real world, this kind of story happed sue to the lake of money, students with talent and work very hard cannot help but give up the chance they deserved. While the only adult with him is Frank on that spot, he shares his besetment with him. It is Charlie’s difficulty in this movie meanwhile, as the movie goes on, we can tell that Frank has some plan about himself already—he wants to kill himself after he finish all things he wants to do, including visit his brother. When I saw the part when he visit his brother, I felt strange at first because his brother’s family seems not really welcome him. Then I realize later on it’s al due to his disguise of his failures, I mean he does not face the music that he make a lot of wrong decisions base on his philosophy. And until then he still want to stand up for that ridiculous principle, or show others he did not care about all the miserable things happened around him. Until the last moment (if as he has planed,) he tell Charlie, “All my life I've stood up to everyone and everything because it made me feel ‘important’”. It’s such a big change for him.
In the end of the movie, I think both of them get some benefit from each other—a real “growth” for Frank and Charlie. Oh! I forgot to say I love this movie! PS. Off course I’ll remember what the word “bitter man” means very well.