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rslade
Feb 05, 2018rslade rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Ironically, we saw this film after the "Victoria" episode on the Irish potato famine. Despite the Bauman name, I very much suspect that there was a high representation of Irish immigrant background in the "ordinary people" who populate this movie, faced with a difficult challenge. The first hour and a half is *not* inspiring. The whining, bickering, and thoughtlessness is very un-uplifting. (As someone who worked in a hospital, and had to move people with limited mobility, the lack of planning represented in some of the vignettes made me cringe. "How stupid are you?" gets to be a constant refrain in the back of the viewer's mind.) Then we get a rather beautiful five minute speech--and then another half hour of rather "meh" redemption, and not much heroism. I really don't know, other than the fact that Americans celebrate *all* of their disasters, why this film got the ratings and interest it did. It's just not that good.