Silence Becomes You (2005)

Strong and Moving!

Better Late Then Never

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I've rarely had a more unpleasant experience watching a movie than watching this one. The two sisters are Seriously Messed Up. We know that from, what, minute 3 of the movie? We never get much past that. Despite an hour and a half of material, much of it laden with seemingly significant flashbacks, we never quite get to what the hell is actually behind all this gauzy art-house pretentiousness.It's great to enjoy a movie, and clearly some people do enjoy this one. I'm happy for you if you're one of them. Seriously, though, if you are inspired by this movie to go out and make something similar, please consider making the following improvements on it so that the rest of us can enjoy it too: * At some point, get around to explaining the premise. We want to know what is happening. Being a tease is fine for the first X minutes of a movie, but not for the entire thing.* Let the audience connect (as in relate) to your characters sooner or later. Otherwise, we can't care about them. If they aren't real to us, their emotions are irrelevant to us.* Offer something beyond unpleasantness and tragedy, or prepare for obscurity (meaning, we aren't coming). We don't always need a shiny, happy ending, but let some sunshine at least threaten to break through somewhere along the line. Pure bleakness is always going to be a tough sell. Life already offers us that for free, if we simply go the wrong direction. Depicting it as invincible is depressing -- and unrealistic.If those kinds of major failures don't throw you off, maybe you'll like this movie. Otherwise, trust the low rating. It's deserved.

Two sisters, Grace and Violet (Sienna Guillory and Alicia Silverstone respectively) who are fairly reclusive take in a drunken thieving sort (Joe Anderson) to stay with them awhile. Unbeknownst to him, they have plans for him, plans that might unravel when it seems Violet may be getting closer to him, much to Grace's chagrin. This is a fairly well-acted (for the first half at least until Sienna starts to madly overact) women's Lifetime-esquire melodrama under the guise of a thriller. A tad too estrogen driven for most, yet solid enough. Nothing I'd personally watch again though.Eye Candy: Sienna Guillory gets topless My Grade: C-

As the movie world has progressed our creative minds have gained an over abundance structure, and boundaries have suffered loss of motivation. "Silence Becomes You" Is a film created out of pure apathy to those who are too lazy to think or attempt to think for themselves. We have Movies that tell us every step of the way, What kind of fun is that? We have no room to think, or to read between the lines, When we are told, and given baby steps to the resolution. When we can predict..anything it leaves out the mystery, and the climactic progression. If you could predict every single step of your life, or your neighbors life how much room would that give you to learn, fail, and succeed? When it comes to a movie that you actually have to think about you tend to get upset because the plot and the story line isn't handed over to you on a silver platter. What is the use of a movie that you aren't inspired by? When we think, our mind expands, when we view, our mind Is merely molded. We have all been molded to believe that If a movie doesn't have the 4 steps that is is crap.. Is it really? I myself found it difficult but exciting, It was completely by accident that I rented this movie, but When I was done, I wanted to experience their lives first hand. Isn't that what a movie is supposed to do? I'm sure that some of you who might be reading this are thinking "no, a movie is supposed to entertain me"..My response to that is to lower your standards, Anything can be entertainment if you allow it to be. Most of the population has to look to cinema, or technology for our entertainment, when really it's in the palm of our hands. We provoke the men and women that are creating these movies to make something either overly entertaining, or just..sublime. Give them a break, Day in and Day out, people are reading new novels, watching new movies, playing new games, that those people created..What do we do but live off of their creations? Try to get out of your house and make something, make a movie, write a book, create a painting, anything, But..If you didn't like this movie, remake it..Don't complain about it. Simply get a life. Your minds are null, and lazy, Don't punish the creative for not satisfying you. Go out and satisfy yourselves. -Katie Morgheim , Age 16

Yes I am the type that reads the back of the DVD case but I never expected what I didn't get. I loved the images of the twisted fairy tale but, the movie seemed like someone had yanked a page out of a Gothic teenagers dreams. I did not understand what the title had to do with the story. It seems that the writer of the film scammed some imagery from Francesca Leah Bloch. This movie seemed to have jumped off the twisted pages of this woman's retelling of fairy tales in modern day terms. All the princesses are schizophrenic and the princes are handsome, screwed up and bipolar. Good luck if you can make sense out of this hodgepodge of victorian furniture, hippy rags and twisted sisters. Toward the end I did begin to understand the older sister and the description of obsession on the back of the box.