Director: Ang Lee
It's a mystery how a metaphor actually works. When it does, it evokes something real - it feels true to our life, we empathize with it, and it may even unearth feelings or thoughts we may not have known that we had. When it doesn't, it feels contrived and unreal. A false metaphor is a virus that threatens others; they might somehow believe this false thing to evoke real feelings and thoughts in themselves. People need to be warned.
The Ice Storm has all of the pieces to be an excellent drama, but it's in the details that the drama unravels. I don't know if the film should have concentrated on only one story, or condensed some of the stories and lengthened others. I don't know if it's because this is ground that films like American Beauty and Donnie Darko have trod over in my mind. Something about it misfires - it feels untrue.
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