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Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
7/21
7/21:
Make no mistake as this movie should be called Smilla's Sense of Slow.
Nothing happens for an interminably long time. Seventy minutes into it, Smilla finds out the deaf kid was infected with
prehistoric worms. With ten minutes left, Richard Harris is back at the same place where he was in
Orca and is summarily killed once again. The end.
Uh...where's the entertainment? Instead, my senses got dulled to boredom. I only picked up the movie because of
Julia Ormond and thought there might be some hope for her; it turns out that she either chose lousy material or
couldn't act which explains her disappearance after a strong run from 1994 to 1997.
I don't get Gabriel Byrne...I really don't. Women find him handsome? And he appeared in a lot of movies during the 90's?
At any rate, Gabriel Byrne is an ineffective actor who has the same boring face. I knew from the start his character
was working for a big company only I didn't know which one. The movie is interesting when Julia Ormond got together with
Robert Loggia while having a chance to skewer Emma Croft with her acid tongue.
What I don't understand is: why does Smilla care so much about the deaf boy? It's a lot of work for her to solve the
mystery. Often implausible in terms of deep knowledge about snow and mathematics as a passing fancy, Smilla has the
ability to transform herself into James Bond and is able to break into buildings and procures information so easily
that the concept of security seems to be unheard of in the English-speaking world of Denmark and Greenland.
All in all, my new title Smilla's Sense of Slow explains why it tanked at the box office in 1997.