STONE (2010)

''The Painted Veil''s director John Curran's masterpiece "Stone(2010)" is one of the greatest spiritual movies of our time. It can be matched with the novel 'Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy, for its spiritual quality and depth. This movie could not get critical acclaim ...and failed at box office because the message in it is simple. Simple things are difficult for people to understand. It is as simple as the protagonist denies using the word spirituality. He likes to say it is life; understanding of life, what necessary is to see 'what is?' This movie questions everybody's life.

It is the story of a convicted arsonist (Edward Norton) who turned into saint or Wiseman. He questions the absurdity of everyone's life. In that questioning he pulls the parole officer Robert De Niro psyche into crisis. An unwanted crisis about the need to knowing 'the meaning of life'; the crisis from which we are always skilfully escaping. An unavoidable crisis we would face today or tomorrow or day after tomorrow. The question of life always remains for us. Naturally, this question disturbs the audience who see the movie. This movie is not pleasant for common person’s taste buds. Therefore, they don't like this movie. However, who are explorers of life, who are struggling to know the meaning of life should not miss this masterpiece.

Edward Norton's performance is astonishing. We need not say about Robar De Nero. Milla Jovovich is outstanding. Finally, this movie is a gem of our time which has been ignored ridiculously.

(As I reviewed for internet movie database (imdb.com)