I was very surprised by this film. The previews made it out to be a kid film with Jim Carrey acting weird. Instead this is a movie aimed at children that takes life and story-telling seriously. This film plays on the idea that Hollywood must have happy endings, it begs to differ. But it is not a tragedy. It is sort of the middle ground between bad things happening and the attempt to make sense of these things as best as one is able to. Snicket's, the narrator, explains all this using the world sanctuary and explaining what this means. The film is tightly woven to allow for Snicket's to add informative commentary. I am now tempted to buy the books (The film covers the first three books out of 11 (currently written)- the series is suppose to end at 13).
May 06, 2005
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i thought that the moral of the story was don't judge a book by its cover. i think this way, because in the book Count Olaf treated the children like shoes and servants. he called them orphan (which I didn't like at all). Also then at the end I think he noticed that the children weren't servants and shoes after all. the story has a great moral, and is an interesting book. Today some people also threat children like this, but they have to stop.!!!!
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