Is it a little odd I was SUPER attracted to Kevin Kline?

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Sophie's Choice

This movie is a brilliant reminder of how far film has come just over the past few decades. It also wonderfully raises the question of whether all that is for the better. The only thing I didn't care for in the film was the set up. The juxtaposition of drama to loving comedy was too mis-mashed for my taste and made the film that didnt' need to, feel like it was dragging.

Oh but the beauty of these performances. I grew up on older Meryl Streep but nothing compares to her early body of work. Her Sophie gave me chills and impressed me with her commitment to accent and the passion in her eyes. She is without a doubt a divine presence on screen now and forever. What I was most impressed with was Kevin Kline. First because he was kind of a dish back in the day and second because he is really just such a fine actor. His theater credits have long out shown his film roles but watching SC, which is in fact his first film debut, it is impossible to deny how his brilliance translates into any medium.

As much as this is obviously a movie about Sophie and her life, which are fantastic, I fell more in love with Sophie & Nathan's chemistry and Nathan's dangerously magnetic presence than the intended core of the storyline.

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