We are what choices we make in life. So when a girl chooses to spend rest of her life with someone […mostly in marriages], in one way, she starts her life but in other, she stops too. Priorities change. Preferences change. Dreams get suppressed. Passion takes shelter in some dark remote corners of the house. And in such times when she probably has nothing left within to describe as her own individuality, a sudden breeze of love and care coming from outskirts evokes emotions that are hard to hold.
Extra-marital affairs are something we shun to discuss while enjoying our meals on dining table but still it exists and may be very much in the house, in the inner-self of our loving partner. Now, without being judgmental on the subject, I can say Clint Eastwood’s THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is one of the most poignant love-story between two individuals stuck badly in their ‘far from each others’ respective lives.
A loving wife & mother of 2 teenage kids [Meryl Streep in a mesmeric superlative performance] accidentally gets to meet an National Geographic travelling photographer in his sober age [Eastwood himself] and soon, in a short-span of 4 days, they both discover strong emotions towards each other that may change the way their life should have been if they haven’t met at the first place! Years later, once she is dead, her kids are made known to this ‘embarrassing’ story that explains about the decision her mother made with her life and why.
As a matured love-saga of different kind, if the film really belongs to someone, it has to be the immensely expressive and natural Meryl Streep. With those parched eyes filled with emptiness, she never misses a shot to make you feel for her. Watch her while answering a simple question as if she really likes the life she’s in. Or in a scene where she lets Eastwood in her house but still not very sure and convinced about her submission to the thought. Clint just creates some magical flare of romance on screen as a competent actor, brilliant writer and equally amazing director. The climax scene where both the lovers are left on a crossroad to make a last choice to be united or take a u-turn to their diverse lives, is for me, the most touching rain sequence on screen ever.
Mahesh Manjarekar’s ASTITVA has impersonated same emotions in a quite Bollywood manner but DO NOT MISS Clint Eastwood’s THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY as it is pure in emotions, clean in thoughts and lyrical in passion. ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED!
Extra-marital affairs are something we shun to discuss while enjoying our meals on dining table but still it exists and may be very much in the house, in the inner-self of our loving partner. Now, without being judgmental on the subject, I can say Clint Eastwood’s THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is one of the most poignant love-story between two individuals stuck badly in their ‘far from each others’ respective lives.
A loving wife & mother of 2 teenage kids [Meryl Streep in a mesmeric superlative performance] accidentally gets to meet an National Geographic travelling photographer in his sober age [Eastwood himself] and soon, in a short-span of 4 days, they both discover strong emotions towards each other that may change the way their life should have been if they haven’t met at the first place! Years later, once she is dead, her kids are made known to this ‘embarrassing’ story that explains about the decision her mother made with her life and why.
As a matured love-saga of different kind, if the film really belongs to someone, it has to be the immensely expressive and natural Meryl Streep. With those parched eyes filled with emptiness, she never misses a shot to make you feel for her. Watch her while answering a simple question as if she really likes the life she’s in. Or in a scene where she lets Eastwood in her house but still not very sure and convinced about her submission to the thought. Clint just creates some magical flare of romance on screen as a competent actor, brilliant writer and equally amazing director. The climax scene where both the lovers are left on a crossroad to make a last choice to be united or take a u-turn to their diverse lives, is for me, the most touching rain sequence on screen ever.
Mahesh Manjarekar’s ASTITVA has impersonated same emotions in a quite Bollywood manner but DO NOT MISS Clint Eastwood’s THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY as it is pure in emotions, clean in thoughts and lyrical in passion. ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED!
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