So, I just watched "The Interpreter" with Nicole Kidman

[LostinVA]

Quite a good flick, btw. I was pleasantly surprised.

Okay, I think she's on of the best actresses ever, and I think she is earth-shatteringly beautiful... but I've never thought she was sexy. But I thought she was in this movie. Why??? The Colonial British accent? Her hair? Seriously... strange.

[applegrove]

1. I thought she played her character well. Didn't see any reason why

she would outdo the story. The story & the moral was good.

[LostinVA]

2. That's what pleasantly surprised me -- Spoiler

It had a VERY good, realistic backstory. Very good blend of Mugabe and Rwanda, I thought. And, it kept me guessing. I almost had it right! And, I knew from the insert shot at the beginning the catering cart had something to do with everything...

I was wrong in that I thought they were setting her up to be the assisin....

Very good, subtle performance. I wonder why the film didn't do better.

[applegrove]

3. I totally thought it was a made up country and story. Never made any

connection to Mugabe. The moral seemed great though.

[LostinVA]

4. It was a made up country

But, they seemed to really used Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe and the genocide in Rwanda as the foundation of the story.

[applegrove]

8. Well it is a story that repeats itself in non-democracies.

[Floogeldy]

5. Yes, yes, yes . . .

. . . yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and . . .

yes.

[Placebo]

6. I thought it was a damn good movie.

And Kidman was really good for the part.

[DS1]

7. It was the brains

;-)

[LostinVA]

9. I told my SO that the movie may have been too thought provoking

ala "The Constant Gardener," to do boffo box office. I almost didn't watch it because I wasn't in the mod for an action movie... but the SO loves Kidman, so we did. Good movie!

[Vidar]

10. Good film.