Amour

i always spoil all the movies i watch before me but i watched this without any, nothing could have prepared me for the ending, despite it being so heavily predictable. i kept hoping that for some reason Anne would pass away and Georges would move on to hospice or a nursing home. it's realistic and sad but it's predictable, and that makes the movie deeply tragic. it follows the sheer and brutal impulse that a person feels when they see a loved one hurting. so many years invested, so many lives changed, so many things done, yet it feels it was all for nothing. old age mimics the feeling of betrayal by the mind, body and soul. our body breaks before our spirit does and somehow that is a hundred times more scarier than being chased by a killer clown or being cut in half. life itself is scary and we are all mere toys for death, entertainment for life. Haneke captured it perfectly. i also have to admire his love for Isabelle Huppert, he sneaks her in every chance he gets but this movie belonged entirely to Jean-Louis and Emmanuel, both gave such extraordinary performances! there is a way every actor and actress in a Haneke movie acts, it's real and brutal and it makes you wonder if they are really that good or if the piece itself is the masterpiece. i think for this movie it was both.