Scott Hicks is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He’s best known as the author and director of Shine. Is a 1996 Australian biographical drama film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions.
It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Goodie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Nicholas Bell, Chris Haywood and Alex Rafalowicz. The screenplay was written by Jan Sardi, and then directed by Scott Hicks.
Release dates: 21st January 1996 (Sundance Film Festival), 15th August 1996 (Australia), 20th November 1996 (United States). Distributed by: Fine Line Features Miramax Films (United Kingdom). Running Time: 105 minutes
During an interview with Scott …show more content…
But tell me, why did you decide to product a movie with so many metaphors in it, as the water for example?”
“To be honest, the choice of the ‘metaphor’, if we can call it like this, has been essential in the movie. It could be interpreted in different ways, and now I’ll explain you why. Water is something pure, as the music that’s coming from a piano; it’s a natural, powerful, and phenomenal element that gives constantly energy to every single thing, even if we don’t notice it. And I see like this music, the piano, the life: something very powerful and sacred, that we don’t have to waste or put it behind our lives if we have it.
Another big meaning that could be more logical and more connected to the film’s plot, and so connected to David Helfogott’s life, is that the water is a natural phenomenon that constantly flows and this reminds and let me think at lives, actions, at the time and words. Everything flows (from Greek “PANTA REI”), the good things flows, the bad things flows, the pain, the joy and the words, if they hurts, they could leave indelible marks. And is from these signs that we often change our thoughts, actions or our life’s philosophy. Everything is always in what we’re …show more content…
During his childhood, David did not want to disobey to Peter because of David could not take his own decisions. When he grew up, he started rebelling to many rules and he started living his life without his father help. He went to a music school where he started learning some new pieces that, according to Peter, he could not even be able to play; he started working as a pianist in a restaurant realising that his dream became very true.
They are relationship is full of up and down even tho if they love each other’s, because the bond between father and son is indestructible.
It’s also significant stabilise what meaning this movie has for me, and I honestly want to say that the most important thing for keep a relationship between familiars in good conditions is learning how to trust, how to react for help in difficult cases… At the end, the film’s meaning is that we need to keep believe in our dreams and keep trying to realize them, the vital thing is to always being one step above the others in everything we are
It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Goodie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Nicholas Bell, Chris Haywood and Alex Rafalowicz. The screenplay was written by Jan Sardi, and then directed by Scott Hicks.
Release dates: 21st January 1996 (Sundance Film Festival), 15th August 1996 (Australia), 20th November 1996 (United States). Distributed by: Fine Line Features Miramax Films (United Kingdom). Running Time: 105 minutes
During an interview with Scott …show more content…
But tell me, why did you decide to product a movie with so many metaphors in it, as the water for example?”
“To be honest, the choice of the ‘metaphor’, if we can call it like this, has been essential in the movie. It could be interpreted in different ways, and now I’ll explain you why. Water is something pure, as the music that’s coming from a piano; it’s a natural, powerful, and phenomenal element that gives constantly energy to every single thing, even if we don’t notice it. And I see like this music, the piano, the life: something very powerful and sacred, that we don’t have to waste or put it behind our lives if we have it.
Another big meaning that could be more logical and more connected to the film’s plot, and so connected to David Helfogott’s life, is that the water is a natural phenomenon that constantly flows and this reminds and let me think at lives, actions, at the time and words. Everything flows (from Greek “PANTA REI”), the good things flows, the bad things flows, the pain, the joy and the words, if they hurts, they could leave indelible marks. And is from these signs that we often change our thoughts, actions or our life’s philosophy. Everything is always in what we’re …show more content…
During his childhood, David did not want to disobey to Peter because of David could not take his own decisions. When he grew up, he started rebelling to many rules and he started living his life without his father help. He went to a music school where he started learning some new pieces that, according to Peter, he could not even be able to play; he started working as a pianist in a restaurant realising that his dream became very true.
They are relationship is full of up and down even tho if they love each other’s, because the bond between father and son is indestructible.
It’s also significant stabilise what meaning this movie has for me, and I honestly want to say that the most important thing for keep a relationship between familiars in good conditions is learning how to trust, how to react for help in difficult cases… At the end, the film’s meaning is that we need to keep believe in our dreams and keep trying to realize them, the vital thing is to always being one step above the others in everything we are