I saw The Ice Storm on TV awhile back but did not see the whole thing. I remember thinking the movie was pretty good. Has anyone else seen it and what are your opinions?

I saw it. I remember liking it a lot. It has bee a long time so I don't remember too much.

One thing I do remember (I think this was from Ice Storm") is a scene where there was a stenographer (or something like that) and she had this thing over her mouth/face that looked like some kind of respirator (except that it was not a respirator) and I was just trying to figure out what that was supposed to be? Was it actually something that exists? Was it part of the "transcribing" process? Was it just there for the sake of being weird?

Anybody who saw the film know what I'm talking about?

I saw The Ice Storm when it came out. I one of those in the minority as I remember. I thought the movie was over-rated, boring, and almost ice cold. The whole minimalist acting was so icy that couldn't see a lot of redeeming values for me to speak of.

Well, it's certainly supposed to be icy, but it makes it difficult to care about anyone and anything. I thought the scene where the car flipped over and slid down the road upside down was freakier and more interesting than most all the characters.

This is an old thread but I just had to say that I think this film is an amazing film and easily one of the best from that year.

Emotional constipation is never comfortable and if a film is effective in portraying this state and you do not suffer much from such a condition (or know and feel for those who do), then you won't get much out of the film.

As Dave Gilmour sings: 'quiet desperation is the [new] English way.'

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TigerG Posted 21 January 2007 09:31 PM Hide Post
This is an old thread but I just had to say that I think this film is an amazing film and easily one of the best from that year.

Emotional constipation is never comfortable and if a film is effective in portraying this state and you do not suffer much from such a condition (or know and feel for those who do), then you won't get much out of the film.

I've always wondered how I would experience this film since I saw it when it first came out. I've gone through a lot of criticism for how positively I felt about Lost in Translation. Now I wonder if with my perspective on that movie would somehow alter how I would feel about The Ice Storm (2003) today.

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TigerG Posted 21 January 2007 09:31 PM Hide Post
This is an old thread but I just had to say that I think this film is an amazing film and easily one of the best from that year.

Emotional constipation is never comfortable and if a film is effective in portraying this state and you do not suffer much from such a condition (or know and feel for those who do), then you won't get much out of the film.

I've always wondered how I would experience this film since I saw it when it first came out. I've gone through a lot of criticism for how positively I felt about Lost in Translation. Now I wonder if with my perspective on that movie would somehow alter how I would feel about The Ice Storm (2003) today.

You never know - although Lost In Translation is a better film than Ice Storm (and many other films) and is a lot warmer film.

Still, a psychologist friend of mine maintains that one of the joys of meaningful art is coming to it every so often as time passes and finding out how you have changed. This evalutation comes from the ways in which we value different things in the art, feel in different ways, however subtly or greatly that might be.

Some art is just not something we can or need to relate to but you never know if you may have more empathy for these rigid but thawing people as the years have passed...