The Sweet Hereafter
So, I read a review by another blogger about this film and he was really slagging it off and so I went and got it and saw it. It’s another one that got highest prize at Cannes in 1997, and here’s what it’s about. There is a terrible accident that happens to this community of people. In the wintertime, a bus full of schoolkids loses control and crashes into a lake. Then the bus sinks and all these little kids die. It affects the whole community, cause almost everyone in the town has lost someone that they love.
So, there is this lawyer who comes in and wants to get all the parents together and sue somebody so the families can get some kind of compensation. Well, first of all, a lot of people think, well, it was an accident so why are we dragging this thing out? And who would we sue anyways? So, the lawyer says we could sue the city, or we could sue the bus company, or we could sue somebody like that because it must have been someone cutting corners.
The lawyer himself is really interesting cause he’s got a daughter himself. His daughter is a drug addict who just uses her dad to get money to get high. So he’s really angry and hurt in his own personal life and he wants to find someone to blame, too.
So the movie goes back and forth with the lawyer guy when he is trying to get all the families together to make a case. He talks to the bus driver and he talks to all different kinds of parents and he talks to one girl who survived the bus crash. The girl is played by Sarah Polley and she was crippled by the accident. The lawyer wants her to testify in the lawsuit. She doesn’t want to but her dad makes her (oh, and she’s sleeping with her dad by the way).
Well, I can’t tell you what happens in the end of the movie, of course, but one thing I will say is it was really unexpected. I disagree that this film was confusing and unoriginal, because I have never heard of something like this before, and I thought all the actors did a really good job. I would recommend this film to other people who want to see it.
Plum
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Hi there,
Ugh, I liked! So clear and positively.
Hobosic