This is the first film I've been inspired to review in months. At the end I was surprised to learn that it was over two hours long.
As I didn't know much about "Invisible Life" prior to watching it, I was fully engrossed as the plot revealed itself from the start until the unexpected ending. I really thought that the sisters, who through childhood and adolescence were as close as identical twins and then separated, would find each other during the prime of their lives.
But no, the circumstances and decisions of each perpetuated their separation and each to live her own life without the love and involvement of the other.
This film is a tragedy. Ultimately, it's about how lives can be ruined by the domination, oppression, ignorance, and cruelty of those in control. Any person who is the subject of conditions like this can relate to the two sisters who managed to find moments of happiness despite their underlying and ongoing sadness and trauma.
Most minority groups demonstrate "resilience" and adapt to the conditions of servitude and subordination they're born into, but a film like this in its fine acting, directing and writing, give details that show just how heart-wrenching their lives truly are. This film is magnificent in how intensely this was accomplished.
As I didn't know much about "Invisible Life" prior to watching it, I was fully engrossed as the plot revealed itself from the start until the unexpected ending. I really thought that the sisters, who through childhood and adolescence were as close as identical twins and then separated, would find each other during the prime of their lives.
But no, the circumstances and decisions of each perpetuated their separation and each to live her own life without the love and involvement of the other.
This film is a tragedy. Ultimately, it's about how lives can be ruined by the domination, oppression, ignorance, and cruelty of those in control. Any person who is the subject of conditions like this can relate to the two sisters who managed to find moments of happiness despite their underlying and ongoing sadness and trauma.
Most minority groups demonstrate "resilience" and adapt to the conditions of servitude and subordination they're born into, but a film like this in its fine acting, directing and writing, give details that show just how heart-wrenching their lives truly are. This film is magnificent in how intensely this was accomplished.