Review of Snow Cake (2006) by Adam E — 02 May 2009

This is a wonderful movie. Best role I have seen Alan Rickman in, he does a fantastic job of portraying a man with a host of skeletons in the closet. Sigourney shines in this one, playing her role astoundingly well.

Everyone else does a fine job playing their characters; Carry - Anne Moss, does a fine job as always. To me this is a movie filled with complicated and emotionally destructive situations. Filled with tragedy, regret and pain.

And yet through the eyes of Linda [Sigourney's character] you see these situations completely different. She has a way of breaking these troubles down to simple little rationalizations due to her Autism.

And to me this is one of the most beautiful aspects of the movie, and one of the things you can learn from this movie. You don't have to be autistic to see that sometimes, the big complicated problems, the pain, the suffering, those things that keep you up at night, you can break them down to where they are what they are, and then you accept them, because there simply isn't anything else you can do, and you move on.

To me, this is something that leapt out at me while watching the movie. How her mind just breaks them down as she tells Alex [Rickman's character] over and over what's really going on, and that it is what it is.

Looking at him sometimes as he deals with these demons, as a child would look at something it doesn't fully understand. Wonderful. This is out of context, and random, but there is this scene in the movie, which is just a close up of a coin spinning to a stop on a mirror.

And that's all it is; a coin spinning to a halt. But they amplified the sound it makes, as it oscillates faster and faster before it stops. This scene totally blew my mind. I suppose its because it's the perfect illustration of how if you really pay attention, everything in life is interesting, and beautiful.

That scene was awesome. I would recommend this movie to anyone who has lost someone or who has gone through a tragedy, it's a fresh look at how some people deal with that. And especially a very interesting look at how someone with autism would deal with such tragedies.

Beautiful film. Bravo.