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October 11, 2004

Windstruck

DVD

Here's a movie I bought because it had paired the same actress and director from [@movie:My Sassy Girl].

It's not as funny, and after fumbling around with a comedic opening, decides it is going to mostly a melodrama, maybe. It does this in a most manipulative way. But my complaint is not that I'm being manipulated--after all, that's what I expect from a movie like this. It's just that I resent being manipulated so clumbsily.

The director takes a lot of risks with his genre mixing, and when it works, it is a lot of fun for the audience. But the movie as a whole can suffer from it, especially when the core story hasn't gelled yet.

You'll be much happier turning this movie off before the very end, when she gets to the train station. The ending gimmick is awful. It is evident that the script ran out of steam a long time before the ending.

Still, the lead actor and actress are radiant, charasmatic good company, if at times a little cheesy.

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