Review of If Only

If Only (2004)
10/10
A two-way version
6 December 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I loved that movie for all what was said before I do, but I see one additional plus: maybe the genius side of the writer and the Director: You can see the movie two ways: 1 - Like the probable intention of the author: a couple, on the breaking point, because he is too busy to love freely; an accident, she dies. He is drowning in his grief, and his conscience makes him re-live the story where he realizes his shortcomings, his losses, and punishing himself, he dies at the end. 2 - The movie start on what we can around the middle believe it's a dream (premonition?). When he wakes up, relieved, he understood the message of his dream: "love fully, for 5 minutes or 50 years, but fully". He apply this lesson, "as if it is his last day", touches the happiness of love, and, in a twist of the fate, dies in the accident he was dreaming, the night before that his love lost her life. No matter the way you watch this movie, it's a piece of Art; the makers are geniuses How about an award? would it not deserve one?
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