Review of Snow Cake (2006) by Aslan N — 19 Sep 2007

I didn't heard about Autism before, but after watching this movie, I surfed a little about this brain disease and found out that Mr. Evans pointed to a right point; Autism cases, unfortunately , increased grew dramatically in north America in 1996?2005.(6 times more). It is unknown how much, if any, growth came from changes in autism's prevalence but I can guess that the main cause is dramatic chemicals in mothers? bodies.

Anyway, snow cake is about two major brain development disorders, Autism and depression. A depressed man, an autistic woman, a dead daughter and a hyper sex oriented woman in a little Canadian town environment is the structure of snow cake. Interesting yeah? And this good structure is built by an excellent casting and covered by a logical, well researched story and furnished by acceptable directing and trimmed by well done editing. It needs only a little bit of ((it)) to be a master piece, Oscar winning movie.

Weaver has autism, make no doubt about it. She had an alien in her body once and we believe it, she was an ape sometimes ago and we accepted it and now she has autism disorder, by all means and signs of this illness. What a great actress we have here. What a performance! I do not know how, but any physician tells you that this character has autism. Alan Rickman, old professor Snape is a middle age depressed man who comes out of the jail recently. You can not find any sign of Rickman himself in this character; he is simply Alex no more, no less. There is a long way from matrix and its action and love stories to a little town in Ontario, but Carrie Anne Moss has passed this way perfectly, she is a neighbor , caring, kind , patient , lovely , sexy and with her own private life.

I do not want to reveal the story for those who have not chance to watch it and this make obligations for me to discuss more about Snow cake story and casting.

Camera and editing are totally in service of the story and you can not find any ups and downs in movie rhythm or camera movements.

Conclusions? DO NOT MISS IT.