Elegy

With a name like Elegy, it’s unfair to expect anything but sadness.  For a lot of people, sadness equates to gravitas, or grandeur.  This is true to an extent.  Films like Atonement, Million Dollar Baby, Gladiator, they manage to express feelings of sadness in a beautiful way.  Other films want to beat you to death with the idea, but never can, it comes across as faux-self pity.  Elegy falls somewhere in the middle.  There are brilliant... Read More