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  Written April 3, 2008

  Suicide is Not Painless

  by amamoviecritic

  Absolutely gut-wrenching and difficult from beginning to end, to long after you have watched this film! Very few films can worm themselves into a person?s psyche, but this one is more than capable: script, sound, music, photography, acting, theme, presentation all conspiring to tell a story that will resonate at the darker edges of our humanity. Nicolas Cage as Ben is a tour-de-force making Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend) look placid. Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a prostitute, complimented Cage as a heart-breaking character of despair and destruction. Both are bent on self-annihilation. Together they spell out a complex mixture of pain, fear, nihilistic and morbid thinking, failure, loss, and an absence of sanity. This story has more to do with relationships and love than with sex and more to do with holding on than with letting go, but such is buried deep within the chasm where death is no longer frightening and life is no longer worthwhile. You will be stunned.

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• I'll Pass
  Written June 6, 2008

  by Supa Quita

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  Written November 4, 2008

  by dmnorman77

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  Written December 18, 2008

  by lumberjack0125

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• I'll Pass
  Written July 1, 2008

  by Tishylaboo

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• So-so
  Written July 23, 2008

  by taker919

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• Must Go!
  Written August 17, 2008

  by KrystalKlear

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• So-so
  Written April 5, 2010

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  Written April 10, 2009

  by movieman1974

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• I'll Pass
  Written October 28, 2008

  by marie_hatzioa

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• Go
  Written August 31, 2008

  by dbcall

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• Must Go!
  Written November 15, 2008

  by Deserakay

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• So-so
  Written October 18, 2008

  by universeeye

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• So-so
  Written May 24, 2009

  by johnkmatteson

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• I'll Pass
  Written September 17, 2008

  by planner65

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