Winter's Tale - the movie

Winter's Tale 

the movie

 

 

Since I call my world a world full of "glitter", I felt like I needed to post something about 

the movie I've just seen today: "Winter's Tale".

The movie is adapted for screen after the eponymous book by Mark Helprin (published in 1983).

I recommend it to all romantics out there, it is a really nice movie, starring Colin Farrell (YES!),
Russell Crowe, and Jessica Brown Findlay (and Will Smith, thehe).

I am acquainted with some of the ideas behind the story, and I love when I see a good movie which shows them again and again, because I want to be remembered that there is more than meets the eye, and that we are connected through more than what we call time and space...
Love is eternal, and we tend to forget it...

I immediately looked up some of the most beautiful quotes from the movie,

here is one of my favourite (as in the book):

“Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden dimness, the most seemingly chaotic political acts, the rise of a great city, the crystalline structure of a gem that has never seen the light, the distributions of fortune, what time the milkman gets up, the position of the electron, or the occurrence of one astonishing frigid winter after another. Even electrons, supposedly the paragons of unpredictability, are tame and obsequious little creatures that rush around at the speed of light, going precisely where they are supposed to go. They make faint whistling sounds that when apprehended in varying combinations are as pleasant as the wind flying through a forest, and they do exactly as they are told. Of this, one is certain.

And yet, there is a wonderful anarchy, in that the milkman chooses when to arise, the rat picks the tunnel into which he will dive when the subway comes rushing down the track from Borough Hall, and the snowflake will fall as it will. How can this be? If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined, 

it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in one glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been given - so we track it, in linear fashion piece by piece. Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once. The universe is still and complete. Everything that ever was is; everything that ever will be is - and so on, in all possible combinations. Though in perceiving it we image that it is in motion, and unfinished, it is quite finished and quite astonishingly beautiful. In the end, or rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small, is intimately and sensibly tied to all others. All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale 

Now I really want to read the book, because I think that the movie is

too short (even though it lasts 2 hours). So that makes me curious, 

did director Akiva Goldsman capture all best parts of the story or only the essence of it? 

In the second half of the movie I felt like something was missing... hmm not sure.

Nevertheless, apparently many regarded the story as "un-filmable".

Maybe it is simply impossible to stage everything you read and imagine...

What do you think?