Review of Don't Look Now (1936) by Vincent O — 27 Jan 2008

I see some people 'fell asleep', some 'only watched an hour' and some think this film is overrated. I think I can account for that..... for you see, some people are ignorant, some people are none too bright and some people recoil and criticize that which confuses them to create the illusion in their own minds that they didn't get it because it was average, instead of the truth - that it soared over their heads.

As someone who has suffered crippling grief, post-traumatic stress and suffered the debilitating results of holding onto grief and the domino effect this has (as it has on Donald), I knew the second this film finished and its 'truth' and 'oh fuck of course's swept over me that I had watched one of the great films of all time.

Howcome people 'don't get it'? B/C some people don't believe or understand that if you refuse to let go and appreciate what was, you change what will be, or worse, you create an opposite, an id, a whithered left arm, if you will....

Hence the ending and donald's brilliant reaction.

Sheer and absolute genius of a filmmaker who didn't want to make a film everyone thought was very good, but chose instead to present an inherent and haunting truth that many would love and some simply would not be able to stay with.

Frankly coming in here and giving "don't Look Now" a bad review is the equivalent of insisting on informing a crowded room that you're not particularly smart, yet still wish to be opinionated.

Just read a bit more, expand your mind, you'll find it rewarding. Regardless, this masterpiece of a horror/thrille - and NOT the wicker man - is the greatest British horror film of all time.

Yes, it IS a horror film, b/c it is horrifying... capiche? That is how the genre is defined, not by gore etc.... Silence of the Lambs for example is more thrilling than horrifying, hence it is a thriller despite being far gorier.... get it?

If you have a brain (or, perhaps more importantly, a heart), you will LOVE this film. It has an emotional and thematic truth, where other films rely on narrative. More films should be this smart and daring.