Review of Gia (1998) by Randall J — 07 Jun 2009

This is one of the saddest movies I've seen in my life so far.

I felt it would be so,that's why I resisted watching if for all these years. But I decided to be brave and face my fears. So I made myself watch it. Not all at once, it would be too much, but in two parts.

First half of the movie didn't touch me much.Gia was just a spoiled brat who couldn't appreciate the good fortune that was bestowed upon her. I almost started to think that my first instinct was wrong and that this wasn't as powerful and important and sad movie as I believed it to be.

Than the second part came and I fell apart. Gia wasn't a role anymore. She was a dear friend I once knew, a part of me buried deep within, a misery I was lucky never to have encountered.

It was a despair and fall of beautiful, meaningful, promising CHOICE that hit me to the bone and shattered my hopes in a blink of an eye...that beautiful, childlike eye of hers.

Accident in the perfect timing. My favorite porcelain tea cup, a moment ago, fell and broke into pieces and the emerging sad glance in my eyes gave in for the proper metaphor of what this acting masterpiece left me in.