Expected more

Awesome Movie

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This film does not contain any twists in plot or anything strange with plot or like there is seriously nothing watchable in this movie. As the clock went far i frequently wished for something like twist to happen in this movie but i guess i expected a bit much. Don't waste your time. for making it 5 sentences long.

What happens when you watch Safe (1998) and you identify with Carol White?To many observers Carol's condition must seem unimaginable. But to someone dealing with deep depression and anxiety this portrayal hits very close to home. The only salvation provided is that when everything is stripped away the self remains. For many that may sound incomprehensible but for Carol and myself, the finding of self is the only chance at salvation.Watch and see how closely you empathize with Carol. Like me, you may want to watch it alone and keep an open mind.

Todd Haynes's Safe is married to its era's increased awareness of plastic toxicity: where the world had once embraced plastics as miraculous new wondersubstance, its environmental implications were at last coming to the forefront. There is tension, however, in the toxicity of plastic's chemical origins and the sterility promised in its final form: overwhelmed by the omnipresence of invisible chemical fumes, protagonist Carol White finds refuge in a plastic oxygen mask. The irony of her reliance on plastics mirrors her relationship to larger systems of oppression in the film: in escaping her claustrophobically prescriptive suburban life, she finds even greater claustrophobia and restriction on her anti-chemical reservation; she must strain herself to find the new environment any sort of improvement. The film offers a clever commentary on our relationship to the social systems above us, and comes recommended in spite of its occasional intentional dullness. –TK 11/11/10

I am going to set the record straight for the movie "Safe": On a side note about the movie "Safe" by director Todd Haynes, it does not support or center around AIDS or homosexuality. I got a chance to talk to the director himself. Many people are off on criticizing the film for being slow, or confusing or they rate it more to the negative side for all the wrong reasons. Many do catch the movie where it counts, however. The background music, the message and the struggle that this lady endures in spite of her environment and others around her is extraordinary. Now I have seen mention a lot of the retreat that she attends as being "cult", "new age" and descriptions of the people running it and some attendees being "downright creepy losers". This is so much missing the movie's points and reasons, that they might as well be blind. This movie is deep, true and doesn't apologize for it, nor should it have to. Having opinions about something is fine if you really see the truth in what you are reviewing, and frankly many do not, so this movie is lost on them, and sadly so. I for one listen to what is commonly referred to as "new age" music which really has a lot less to do with anything "new age" than often the category suggests or is implied. The same goes for this movie, "Safe". For example, on a music side of this, I also have spoken with William Ackerman, who originally founded Windham Hill music company, and he says people just don't understand the music when they are approaching it from an unjustified and unwarranted standpoint. The music is beautiful, deep, meaningful and life-changing. And that is what good music or a movie is supposed to be. That describes "Safe" perfectly, and the director will back that up. If you don't see it all, talk to Todd Haynes.