The Bridges Of Madison County [DVD]

Bridges of Madison County is a classic case-example of a movie that's so good -- not because of plot or action. One can argue that the forbidden love/love lost sort of thing has been done over-and-over again, and is therefore sort of trite. But here, the movie is so good because the characters and acting (Eastwood and Streep), the dialogue and script (Richard LaGravenese), and the film direction (Eastwood) come alive, as if you're living in it, in real-time, in real person. Movie is that classic case-example where the characters come alive right in front of you, as if without notice or warning you're an unwitting participant in the story. The dialogue so good, so real; the acting so real to life; the movie's directorial story movement so taut and minimalistic as in how real life happens...that you don't even notice or care even that the movie's actual love-story plot is a "been there, done that" sort of action. Instead, you're swept into the emotion the storyline is designed to trigger: the exhuberance when the protaganists meet and spend time together, the dramatic tension as their relationship deepens and widens where it ought not, then at the end, at climax... See it for the enjoyment, see it for the movie-making case study.

Love, love, love this movie!!