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'Peter Weir', best known by my generation of movie fans for 'The Truman Show', indisputably creates a valiant masterpiece with the highly emotionally engaging yet cranial drama 'Fearless', dealing with a man (Bridges) forcing himself to close the gap between his physical living existence and his soul/mind that already accepted death meanwhile endeavoring to cope with the the realization that life is insufferably dual. This duality lies in the joy of 'mundane' life (mainly his wife and child) and the divine pleasure of the orgasmic fearlessness running through his veins after his mental acceptance of death. He can't balance both, he is unable to revive himself from his coma-like status - ghost like would be more accurate since he is quite the opposite of paralyzed, he's immortal - and the savior (he saves people after a plane crash) ironically needs to be saved himself. He eventually is in a very touching scene in the end, shouting 'I'm alive' at the top of his lungs as he is freed from the agony of being mentally dead, a scene paralleled with the last puzzle piece of the crash events and accompanied by a marvelous musical piece. A mighty scene!
The above is only a small dip of my pen in the ink pool of thoughts this movie provides for, please see this movie for your own sake!
score 9/10
Panterken 2 April 2008
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