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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

People are voting emotionally.

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Hmmmm... Inhaling before to write my first word, suspended in the air... because I want that word to be beautiful.One of my talents is in writing. I have no financial success. Although I have been published - for free.I do not have an awesome screenplay or a breathtaking novel to give. I write poetry and I write notes, texts, messages. Every time I write I pour love into it. I love typing words and, funnily for the first time, by watching this sensitive beautiful documentary have I seen myself as a pianist.I feel very grateful to Bernstein for honoring artistry. And very grandly grateful to Ethan for sharing this gift with us all. I want to tell Ethan although you may never read these lines: I consider you to be one true deep and intense artist and you could be honored by not having received any academy award. That may truly show how intimate and pure your art is many times.I have seen an actor who has been trying to receive an award for years receiving it for a work that was created around this purpose and in which that actor did a compilation of some of the most intense scenes he did in his career. He got it but what did it really mean? I have written elsewhere - and I maintain it - that if awards were truly rewarding pure genuine performances, they would have been rewarding you for Training Day. At least. My favorite performance of you, in all I saw of you, was in Before Sunset. I watched this movie an alarming number of times. I still can see you on the Bateau-Mouche talking true feelings to the 'love of your life'. It wasn't simply the obvious romantic aspect of your performance that appealed to me, no, no, it was this fully alive, vibrant, almost tangible expression of your face when you expressed your certainty that you could have lived with the love of your life. Hmmmmmmmm....I, too, have been bullied into this world of achievements that we all know, that we all grew up in, we who use IMDb casually. I have gotten depressed by the upside-down nature of this world where the worst performances gather the biggest fortunes, where the sincere lone artists get mocked for being unknown. Therefore, I bow to both of you, for having rewarded me with these true reminders of what art is, poured into me via this film, and comforting me in the need I have to honor my true essence instead of following the pressure of a world which always wants more tinsel and glitter.

As a musician of 50 years standing and an international teaching and performing career, I can honestly say, this movie was a "stunner". Professor Bernstein embodies all of those qualities of a teacher, a performer and a wise professor of life and culture that we all emulate and have tried in our careers to articulate. He is more than a "guru" but an icon of performance practice and pedagogy that will stand the test of time in this important and beautiful film.Ethan Hawke should be commended and lauded for bringing this important man and his wisdom to light in this profound way. In my opinion, this film should be "required viewing" for every pedagogue, music lover, and aspiring performer. It should (at least) be in the library of every university, music school and college in the country. Fantastic film and the best music film I have ever seen.

. . . I drove way out to view SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION. It turns out that director Ethan Hawke's film doesn't even mention the Glass Family (or even BOYHOOD's Evans clan). SEYMOUR actually is about a father who had "three daughters and a pianist." After this ivory tickler saw body bags when drafted into the U.S. Army fighting in Korea, he cut short his concert career to become a piano teacher (like Marion the Librarian in THE MUSIC MAN). This title character, Seymour Bernstein, apparently lacked the stomach to tackle the showier popular pieces a concert career demands, such as Rachmaninoff's Third, which was pulled off by the mental guy in SHINE. Disparaging successful, crowd-pleasing pianists here such as Glenn Gould, Liberace, and Billy Joel, Mr. Bernstein spends his post-concert hall years in his one-room apartment composing pieces with titles like "Belinda the Chipmunk" and pounding out tunes written by unbalanced minds, such as that 25-year-old guy who married a Sweet Sixteen gal, Schumann. They say "Those who can, do." Others teach.

I wept, equally of joy and sadness, for most of an hour and forty minutes. Sit up front and go alone. See it at a theater only. This film is so quiet and delicate...and it just sneaks up on you and goes right through into your heart, gut, soul. It may be the most extraordinary film I've ever seen on the subject of artistry, creativity and its inner workings.....and I've see a few greats:(Frida, Turner, Vivian Maier, etc.) 'Seymour' is about devotion, love, inspiration. And it's big secret is that it GIVES THIS RIGHT TO YOU as you bear witness, if you let it get inside. You cannot go back into the world now. Well, not for a while. Not until you get over to the musical instrument, the pen or type, the camera, the canvas, the clay. Ethan Hawke....what are you doing to us? The understated, magnificent director you have become! Thank you for this.