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Good movie ... made me cry ... didn't like ending

posted 17 years ago by mloessel
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A good movie but it wouldn't make my viewing list because the emotions expressed were not compelling enough for me. I found the pacing a bit slow and some of the scenes were too stereotypical. And yes Nolte and Sarandon do very credible work in their respective roles but the movie lacked some continuity. I remember Kirk Douglass once said that the purpose of a movie is to entertain. Lorenzo's Oil did not entertain me. I shed some tears but didn't like the ending. In the ending credits the director choose to take a leap and go from Lorenzo hoping to get a cure for his rare desease to having testimonial clips of ALD patience who were cured. Such a leap did nothing for me. The movie had its moments but fell on its face in the end.

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[–] leahbethm 11 years ago

The boys that were shown at the end were NOT cured.
They were boys that had used the OIL and their disease had not progressed.
Only the boys that took the oil early on before their symptoms had gone into the second stage were helped. They ending showed that many boys were 'helped' by the oil - but it was too late for Lorenzo, his condition was stabilized but not reversed.