Word: offing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because of the visual style he chooses, Hicks is able to retain the novel's dense, multi-tiered flashback structure. Though the screenplay is, for the most part, religiously faithful to the novel, Hicks does take a few very slight liberties with the ending. More cynical viewers may find his...
Within this framework, director/screenwriter Scott Hicks (working from the prize-winning novel by David Guterson) creates a fascinating meditation on cultural misunderstanding. We watch as the Japanese and Caucasian children of San Piedro Island are taught the lessons demanded by their respective cultures--lessons which are well-intended, but which...
Much of the novel's success was due to the long passages of indirect discourse in which the characters reexamine their pasts and attempt to grope towards a solution. Hicks dispenses with most of these passages in the film because he does not need them. He knows that much can...
The actors in Snow Falling On Cedars are left with remarkably little to say--particularly the two leads, who are left with the difficult task of posing silently for Hicks's long montages. Hawke and Kudoh are both admirably restrained for the most part, and they do a creditable job...
Snow Falling On Cedars is many things: an ambitious if slightly uneven visual fantasy, a murder mystery, a love story. But most of all, it is a parable about forgiveness, about the fact that injustices will spiral endlessly through the centuries until someone decides that retribution is not a viable...