I just wanted to say, that I personally, as a Christian, can only *survive* this movie by believing that it was not intended to actually be Jesus. I admit that it would be nice for Teresa (Lili Taylor). But you know, I think the idea of seeing Jesus on the screen is scary too me, as far as my understanding of my faith is, I can't help feeling offended having Him made an element of a fantasy story. It's difficult for me to deal with this kind of vivid imagination and also many other people might be disturbed. Last thing I wanna do is judge people who create those stories, I just can't relate to them in any way. I don't know how Faith and portraying Him on the screen can actually mix.
So for me it was a pity that they had to tell the story this way. Because it all started off so good. The movie has a great atmosphere from the beginning. I felt sorry when Tracey Ullman painted the walls in this crass yellow and took away this flair of Italian kitchen. I enjoyed most moments of the strange marriage of Tracey and Vincent D'Onofrio and I basically could buy their daughter's story, too. Though I think we've seen that story quite too often, most notably in "Mermaids", where I was more comfortable with it.
When I started to feel disturbed by the story, what cheered me up were Tracey and Vincent as the aging married couple. That was the ultimate prize, just grand!
So for me it was a pity that they had to tell the story this way. Because it all started off so good. The movie has a great atmosphere from the beginning. I felt sorry when Tracey Ullman painted the walls in this crass yellow and took away this flair of Italian kitchen. I enjoyed most moments of the strange marriage of Tracey and Vincent D'Onofrio and I basically could buy their daughter's story, too. Though I think we've seen that story quite too often, most notably in "Mermaids", where I was more comfortable with it.
When I started to feel disturbed by the story, what cheered me up were Tracey and Vincent as the aging married couple. That was the ultimate prize, just grand!