The Life Before Her Eyes
by Vadim Perelman
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Actor: Eva Amurri, Evan Rachel Wood, Uma ThurmanDirector: Vadim Perelman
Brand: LIFE BEFORE HER EYES, THE (DVD MOVIE)
Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman
Composer: James Horner
Editor: David Baxter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Life Before Her Eyes
DVD Review: under rated
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this movie--I guess most did not--it came and went to the movie theater so quickly I never even heard of it till it went on to DVD.
This is a real ""thinkers'' movie--I had to watch it 2 times to understand the ending which really explains the whole movie.....
No big action--except the school shoot out--but an excellent plot
DVD Review: A Surreal Portrait . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
The Life Before Her Eyes is a chilling portrait of a high school student gone mad, leaving devastation in his wake.
Evan Rachel Wood portrays Diana, a wild girl who relishes using bad language and meting out her own brand of justice, while her best friend Maureen, played by Eva Amurri, serves as the moral compass. While blithely enjoying their day, the two hole up in the school bathroom, chatting and fixing their makeup -- and then shots ring out.
From this point forward, the movie plays out in a series of flash-forward, flashback vignettes -- we see the two girls swimming, diving, hanging out; and then we see the adult version of Diana, taking her daughter Emma to school, glancing nervously at a sign over the local high school announcing a 15-year memorial of the tragedy -- a haunting day when a boy fired into a school, destroying lives.
Several versions of the teenage girls' final moments are played out, with the killer asking them to choose which one will die.
What seems like a normal life for the adult version of Diana soon has us asking several questions: Which girl actually died on that fateful day? What constitutes reality and what is actually fantasy? Is everything only a flashing of "life before her eyes" and is nothing real at all?
The viewer must decide the answers to these questions. But no matter what conclusions you reach, this movie will haunt you for some time to come.
DVD Review: many liberties taken with the book
Summary: 3 Stars
SPOILER ALERT
It's always risky to watch a movie made from a book you liked, and I did like the book version of the story quite a bit...it was lyrical and dreamy and morally challenging. The film, for some reason, inserted a weird narrative about abortion, which was not part of the original story. It also made Maureen, the best friend, a Christian virgin. So of course the whole thing becomes a religious morality play, whereby the bad girl chooses to die to make up for the life she took. Yuck. The book had none of that nonsense. And in fact, the (anti-)heroine made quite a different choice in the book, which offered a completely different twist on the "choose life" thing--in the book the grown-up Diana sees a bumper sticker with that saying on it--the person who wrote the screenplay obviously noticed that and decided to make it more of a propaganda piece, instead of a morally ambiguous fable.
That said, the performances were good, and it may be that the whole story would have played better to someone who hadn't read (and liked) the original novel.
DVD Review: Too confusing...I didnt enjoy the movie...but curiosity is there.
Summary: 2 Stars
I havent read the book, but now I would like too. The movie was too confusing, I wasnt sure at first whether or not the main girl was a ghost or what. A customer at work explained it to me and then I understood. The girl did die and the whole movie was what she had envisioned in the two seconds before she died. I didnt really like the movie, I'm not an Uma Thurman fan at all, but I would like to read the book to see if it'll explain in greater detail. This movie rents really well, a lot of people are immensouly curious about it and have deemed it a "work of art". I found that you have to devote your entire attention to this movie, or you are really going to become lost like I did. So if you got alot of time to sit and think i would watch it, but if you have a short attention span and are easily confunded dont watch, you'll feel that you haave wasted your time.DVD Review: the kind of movie that stays with you
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was a struggle to watch at first--similar to the frustration I feel when I'm expected to read minds. It could be that I missed too many of the clues I could have caught if I weren't trying so hard to get it all at once. A friend and I did have fun with the lingering question marks we felt weren't so explicitly answered by the end of the movie. Admittedly, it took a second viewing and additional light from "cliff notes" audio commentary for me to fully appreciate the brilliant story telling of this film. In a way that is rich with imagery, and radiating with sincerity, the film reaches so deep into the soul... I had trouble "putting it down," and just moving on with the everyday routines of life.
Description of The Life Before Her Eyes
Imaganitive impetuous & wild diana cant wait for her adult life to begin. Diana tests her limits as her more conservative friend maureen watches with concern. But dianas aura of invincibility is shattered when a moment of life & death decision-making forever changes the lives of the best friends. Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 08/19/2008 Starring: Uma Thurman Eva Amurri Run time: 90 minutes Rating: RGeneral DVDs
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