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As Good As It Gets

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is a companion piece to the film The Magdalene Sisters, but is more brutal, and also more beautiful. Not for the squeamish, this work of art is a fantastic example of why we have film as an art form and as a way to bring light to social injustices. There are countless holy people--true saints--who have found Jesus through various Christian constructs such as Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, and a wide variety of Protestant versions. However, for the most part those involved in maintaining the structures themselves are not Christlike at all, but demonic. Jesus promises that if anyone hurts one of his little ones, it is better that a millstone is tied around his neck and that he is then thrown into the sea. Maybe it's just me, but I never want to be on the other end of that warning. It's really too bad that there are those who do find themselves there, hiding their evil behind self-righteousness.

Everything about this movie is wonderful if you can handle the grim subject matter. The musical score is superb, the cinematography excellent, the writing intelligent, and the acting faultless.I was expecting the subject matter to be exploited, but it wasn't. At the same time, no punches were pulled.Everyone involved in this project deserves high praise, and my only complaint is that here is yet another great movie ignored by the mainstream.I am happy to say that this movie is heart-warming at the end -- in spite of the tragedy that takes place, and the fact that the wrongdoers do not receive the punishment they so richly deserve.Anyone concerned about the injustices and hardships visited upon innocent and defenseless children should see this movie, which is based on historical fact.

While i lived in Ireland, a friend and i went to the movies in Cork and saw "A song for a Raggy boy" i never thought i would like the movie. But guess what, it was one of the best movies i ever seen. It really touched me, I cried and felt so much for the movie. Its one of the best movies i have ever seen, and i have seen much! Now after seeing this movie i cant help but thinking of another movie that resebels this one, well not so much resembles but made me fell the same, its "Schindler's list". Both movies is based on a true story and about a man that tries to change or change others. Both these movies have an effect to make people understand how we work, and it is scary that we, as a well developed of species, act like brutal animals. Its scary to see. just as you can see it in Mel Gibson's movies "The passion of the Christ". We are not and have never been a nice species. we are just as bad as any other. But for you who want to see a movie that touches and makes you see something else then the classical Hollywood movies, see this one.

An Irishman who fought in the Spanish Civil War is engaged as the only lay teacher in a reform school run by oppressive, predatory Catholic priests. In this brutal environment, the teacher kindles the intellectual enthusiasm of his initially illiterate students by introducing them to poetry. His resistance to the reformatory's regime sparks a harsher crackdown in response. The plot earns no awards for creativity or subtlety but then, we learn in the end that this is based on a true story. Although the characters can seem one-dimensional, I found the acting riveting and the story well-paced; hardly a dull moment. On a side note, I can't remember another recent film without female characters (although one appears in flashbacks).