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It's been said before....beautiful visuals but lame content. Goes for me too...this is the 4th TM movie i see with these kind of wide angle beauty-shots....Tree of life was maybe a surprise...but seeing 4 movies featuring rich folks moving around in their day to day struggle does'nt do it for me anymore. I kept on watching Song to Song for the beauty of the camera capture but deffinetly not for it's story...which was dull. Why not use the same beautiful cinematography on an opposite subject...poor folks struggling in life and the environment they are caught in. Ugly and nasty neigbourhoods instead of constantly appearing modern architecture, glass and straight lines...Show us some real people....use this style of looking in the slums of Rio, Havanna or Lagos Nigeria.

Wow! What a beautiful movie. Jolie totally succeeds in telling this story about suffering humanity in the hands of an insane doctrine. Just about everything is well thought out and directed. The characters are deep and come over as very real. Special credits for the main protagonist, the little girl who acts so convincing and absolutely succeeds in touching our hearts. Camera work is great...And the story is told in the language of the land it plays in. How different is this war story then her work in 'The land of blood & honey'..which was terrible. This film is brought to us in a warm & touching manner...while not emphasizing too much on the brutal murders and killings that where abundant in that period of Cambodian history...I'ts a great story of suffering & survival being told in an utterly convincing way! Chapeau for Angelina's work on this Film.

Now this is one boooring movie. Why is it that if one plays an historical figure..the actor needs to present itself as close as possible to the original but with the focus on the wrong details? The most terrible aspect of this film is the fact that Portman has to speak, master the same dixie, as Jackie Kennedy. If one hears Jackie Kennedy speak on old footage it sounds natural...it's her. But listening to Portman is tiresome..she sounds sooo artificial and unnatural..and that's because she isn't speaking with her own voice. All that matter's is the character portrayal isn't it? even if the voice is different. or not so articulate....i't like when in those war movies an actor playing a German has to speak English with a 'German'accent.Sounds crazy ass hell. We'll...the only thing i could enjoy a bit in watching this was the music score, but that 's about it! Portman should'v given the voice a subtler input ( a director thing) and really present Jackie through the effect of her portrayal of the character.