Review of Dawn Anna (2005) by Christina I — 16 Oct 2007

It's very sad, but it is not really a story. It's about a woman who has brain surgery and then fifteen minutes from the end, it turns into a completely different story when there's a sudden, tragic death of a loved one. Nothing connects the two stories except the fact that they both involve the same family. Perhaps the fact that the second story was crammed into fifteen minutes is part of the reason why the two stories are so disconnected from each other. That's why I can't give it more than a two. Also, not that much character development. The characters are based on real people but it seems as if the characters are based on stories told to the media and as a result, they don't seem like well-rounded people in the movie. They seem really nice, but "niceness" isn't enough.

Lots of people deal with very similar tragedies. That alone doesn't make a story. A story is taking the random aspects of life and fitting them together as though they were pieces of a puzzle and the puzzle's final coherent picture is the meaning.