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I got nowhere else to post this: I saw Sophie's Choice for the first time (have heard so often about it featuring "the greatest performance by an actress OF ALL TIME" that it's been an itch I've been meaning to scratch for a while). I of course have known all about THE CHOICE for years and years from the movie's reputation and footprint in pop culture... But MAN, nothing really prepares you for it, does it? It might be the most upsetting movie scene I've ever seen as an adult. The rest of the movie I found uneven: great performances (and yeah, Streep as Sophie is a contender, for sure), generally well-made and directed, but overlong and the Holocaust flashbacks in the second half are so heavy they render the rest of the movie almost inconsequential. An interesting thing for me to discover was that "Sophie's choice" is actually a twist: the movie seems to want the viewer to think the title refers to her having to choose between two men, but then at the end it drops the bomb. Also, I've always thought of Peter MacNicol as "that guy from Ghostbusters II" ("Eets Vigo!!" "I am drippings with goo", etc.), he really surprised me here.
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