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A great example of why men are always the inferior choice in telling women’s stories. Sophie’s Choice has some extraordinary moments and they all occur when the film is focused on Sophie. The story that she tells isn’t one that needs to be framed by a southern virgin writer, and yet that’s what we get. Sure, perhaps he’s intended to be the audience’s lens for viewing her story, but it doesn’t work, not for me. It is horribly tone deaf that after Sophie shares her deepest, darkest shame, we get a voice over from him saying: “I was twenty-two and a virgin and was clasping in my arms at last the goddess of my unending fantasies, my lust was inexhaustible.”…
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If you think Meryl is overrated watch this movie and you’ll shut the fuck up.
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“Sophie’s Choice” is famous for containing one of the greatest acting performances ever committed to celluloid. It’s a display of definitive talent… that clashes with one of the worst narrative framing choices ever made by a director. Like many coming across “Sophie’s” for the first time decades after its release, my foreknowledge of the film derived from the now-colloquial use of its title. What has come to mean a decision between two equally awful options originates from a famous scene in “Sophie’s” that unfolds outside a concentration camp. Imagine, then, my surprise when “Sophie’s” opened with a skinny southern Christian virgin in voiceover — narrating about his great summer writing adventure in New York City. If it were 20 years…
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for a movie called Sophie’s Choice, it surprisingly had very little to do with its eponymous character. So much so, that the her life’s chronicle nearly becomes a mere subplot! and it’s a shame because it was a pretty good subplot with a lot of potential !! the way that the creators of the film chose to unfold Sophie’s life of hardship throughout the (highly unnecessary) 150 minute runtime felt very muddled and sleazy. idk, this just left a bad taste in my mouth. thank god Meryl Streep was there to save this from being a complete trainwreck. yall really weren’t lying about this being one of the great Oscar winning performances!
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Clearly Donald Trump has never seen Sophie’s Choice or he wouldn’t have the audacity to suggest that Meryl Streep is overrated
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150 minutes of a virgin dweeb lusting after a woman who, for some baffling reason, keeps telling him her horrible experiences during the holocaust. ***SPOILER ALERT**** He has sex so badly with her she dies.
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waiting for the 2025 remake of sophie’s choice where meryl streep must choose between gay son and thot daughter
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I don’t know if I’m overthinking this but I really disliked how a story about a woman’s tragic life was turned into a story about a young man who simply wanted to sleep with her from the day he first saw her. The film would’ve been much, much better if stingo’s scenes were just cut out.
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This is definitely an intense movie. However, I didn’t find the ending that sad. While I hate that it seems it was not her choice and Nathan’s involvement. I do feel that she finally seemed comforted after a lifetime of grief and severe trauma
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Meryl Streep was amazing and I wish the story was told from her perspective and included more of her flashbacks. Stingo sucked the life and emotion out of the seriousness of this film.
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No me ha encantado. Me parece que para querer contar la vida de Sophie, se va por las ramas demasiado tiempo de la película contando en paralelo las desventuras y proceso creativo del escritor. Aunque la parte sobre el holocausto me ha enganchado, el resto de la peli me ha sobrado un poco. Me encanta la referencia cruzada con “la zona de interés”.
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Ddivanille 8 月 22, 2026
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Gsshsnkspskcheuwizhxjak the choice
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I’ve been putting off watching this movie because I don’t like sad movies, but I finally ripped off the bandaid. In a movie that’s supposed to be about a woman surviving the Holocaust it’s just about two dudes wanting to fuck Meryl Streep while she spills her trauma. Despite being an overrated movie, Meryl Streep gives a performance of a lifetime, bumping my review of the movie by a whole star.
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I don’t know what to say to be honest. It’s just tragic and heartbreaking as fuck. I can really tell that a man wrote this script. One of Meryl’s best acting performance. She’s really one of the greatest actors/actresses of all time.
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I fear chidi anagonye’s got a tough competition
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Were you silent or were you silenced? I was both. The irony of Sophie’s Choice is that she was left with no choice in the sense that her circumstances dictated that whatever path she went down would lead to the exact same destruction and tragedy. Yet, Sophie was a complex and multifaceted character that Meryl Streep portrayed in what may be the greatest performance I’ve ever seen. This movie is what A24 keeps trying to do but will rarely ever…
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“meryl streep could play batman and be the right choice.” i think there were other actors in this one, too?
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Oh. I thought this was supposed to be good.
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Neviem ci existuje film, ktory ma zasiahne tak ako tento. Kazdy kto si mysli ze Meryl Streep je overrated by si mal pozriet Sophie’s choice. Dufam, ze sa k nemu dostanu aj dalsie generacie a uvidia o com je FILM.
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Meryl. Streep.
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all of her suffering reduced to the director (a man) going back and fourth on which loser man will be better for her
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Number 91 in the AFI top 100 movies of all time list certainly does not disappoint. Meryl Streep puts on an astonishingly good performance as a holocaust survivor who falls in love with an erratic and brilliant man (also played very well by Kevin Kline) in Brooklyn after the war. A young Southern writer befriends the couple and learns all about their relationship, her devastatingly traumatic past, and soon discovers the man has a certain medical condition that needs to be monitored. Meryl Streep speaks multiple languages and completely inhabits the character. It’s a remarkable performance and a very well made film. Definitely recommend.
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Meryl Streep, je comprends tout Sophie et Stingo my babies sérieux Mais quelle vie de merde
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devestating that such a heartbreaking story is framed through the men that take advantage of Sophie starting with her father and ending with Stingo & Nathan rather than her own story. Meryl acted the hell out of this movie though
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We are dying Is there any role that Meryl Streep can’t play? I immediately started hating on stingo when he began his love confession and getting married speech. He’s like one of those ‘I can fix her’ kind of people until he realises that he can’t.
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filmes que assassinam. a atuação da Meryl meudeus come meu cu
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NATHAN WHEN I CATCH YOU NATHAN (All 4 stars go towards Meryl Streep) (1 star redacted for all the shitty men in this movie)
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I had never actually known what the choice was until now, although i had always wondered, but it didn’t disappoint. The choice itself was so emotional. U feel trapped inside her anguish, and the fact that u can see it coming makes it even worse. Which leads to the amazing breathtaking performance by meryl. The fact that she learned polish and german for the role, and spoke german and English with a perfect polish accent. It’s insane. What a deserved…
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What a beautiful movie but as sad as it is beautiful. This is Meryl Streep’s best role.
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This was good. Maybe the first half was a bit too slow but the second half was great. Streep is always excellent but in this one she did absolutely amazing.
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é com atuações destas que se percebe a qualidade e a genialidade da meryl streep
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BEN HAYATIMDA BÖYLE BİR ŞEY İZLEMEDİM. NAPTINIZ SİZ AQ, KİMİN AKLINA GELİR BÖYLE BİR ŞEY YAZMAK? 2 SAATTİR AĞLIYORUM. Meryl boşuna Oscar kazanmamış bu rolle
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I am giving it a positive score for Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, but everything to do with Stingo … even the name just tells you that he’s a lousy, pretentious writer who’s in the Dead Poets Society to learn how woo women.
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She couldn’t forgive herself / заслуженный Оскар легендарной Мерил Стрип. фильм, который оставляет тебя наедине с мыслями я смотрела половину на английском, половину с VHS озвучкой индивидуальный опыт
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Meryl Streep is a goddess.
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An impossibly tragic story featuring a desperately sad performance by Streep. I don’t think I’ll ever want to watch this again, but I’m glad to have it under my belt. Kevin Kline is also absolutely fantastic here (in his first film role!).
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meryl streep atriz do século mesmo!
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Meryl Streep could be Batman and I would say she is perfect for the role, because apparently she is good in everything. Her story was devastating, sensible, ww2 is my Roman Empire so I cried for a whole second half of the movie. Stingo, on the other hand, is annoying little fuck and I hate how they wrote him. Like what kind of jerk is gonna talk about marriage and try to make a woman sleep with him after she…
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rip sophie Nathan and stings you’d love polygamy
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CANT A WOMAN CATCH A BREAK???? Let Sophie LIVEEEEE!!!!! Get away from her!!!!!
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men ruin everything: episode 3457853359976
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Without Meryl Streep I wouldn’t even bother rating this film, but she’s perfect in this movie
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Eu sinceramente nem sei o que falar… eu definitivamente não esperava essa história, essa profundidade… a Sophie merecia muito mais, o Nathan não era digno dela, e o Stingo era doce, mas muito imaturo. Um excelente filme, e não seria diferente com a atuação de Meryl. Mas eu definitivamente não teria escolhido, e iria junto com eles.
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I have a lot of conflicting and mixed opinions of this movie. Lots to love, lots to hate. Moral of the story: don’t date coked up schizophrenics.
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woman’s interesting and complex backstory wasted because at the end, she’s just a piece of meat in a love triangle 💔 tragic
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Que tio hollywood con un tópico potente como se revuelve en el barro. Ellos tres me encantan son super odd y yo queria que se besasen los tres pero no hay manera macho. Stingo twunk king
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Everyone always talks about Meryl Streep’s performance here as one of the best ever committed to film. This is the kind of role that has Oscar bait written all over it – her character goes through hell several times, and that’s before we even get to the “choice” scene – but Streep somehow exceeds expectations. It’s the language work that impressed me most, like how you can hear her English slowly getting more fluent over time. And it wasn’t enough…
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They don’t make them like that anymore
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revisiting after a decade: people are complicated and Meryl Streep is beautiful
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idk not my fav movie i liked meryls streep performance in it but focused too much on nathan and stingo whom i dont really care for
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Meryl Streep really pulls you up off the ground and vanishes the ground from below you. So confusing cause it was giving horny threesome in Brooklyn vibes and then it wasn’t anymore. But then it ended up that way? I really was entranced by Meryl Streep so
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this movie devastated me
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i just finished watching this, she looked like a Greek goddess
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DO NOT UNDER AND CIRCUMSTANCES WATCH THIS MOVIE IM WARNING YOU ONE DAY I WILL RECOVER
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Meryl Streep was absolutely amazing and every time I thought I knew what the ball drop of the film was, I kept getting punched in the gut Sophie’s choice WAS NOT A JOKE!!
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A great director delivering one of his finest films, and academy award winning best actress performance that was indisputable.
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I would have honestly preferred a story completely about Sophie and not the overall story with Stingo or Nathan. Those character interactions were good, but I feel her story is just plainly more interesting than the overall plot with this crazy guy and wannabe writer.
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Hats off. I can’t even make a decision over takeouts
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Criticism that men are all over this film (Pakula writes/directs adaptation of William Styron’s book; Stingo sets up blockade) fairly justified, but could be seen as yet another struggle Sophie must get through in this world (Streep, too, who wouldn’t be directed by a woman until “She-Devil”). Making this Stingo’s story more than Sophie’s (who doesn’t take over until more than halfway through) ultimately a dreadfully damaging choice, though, topped off by many scenes that meander. Even still, we get to witness Streep in trademark performance (maybe a top 10 ever in Hollywood), in addition to an underappreciated Kevin Kline debut.
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I fear Meryl Streep’s (and Kevin Kline’s) fantastic performances do not make this movie worth watching. Even in 1982 I would find this entire framing cringe. It’s actually shameful to have placed Sophie’s story on equal par with Nathan’s schizophrenia (which is admittedly sad but poorly regulated by his doctor of a brother????) and, worse, the 22 year old Southern twink STINGO who wants to fuck anything that gives him the time of day.
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Thanks to the amazing inventions of portable DVD players and dvd wallets my Letterboxd will not be quiet while I travel for the next four months so please rejoice in that! Overall a decent movie, some bits felt a bit random and shoe horned in but also Meryl Streep hey! She’s quite good at this
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meryl streep. generational talent
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“Sophie’s Choice,” from 1982, has given the English language a phrase that now circulates independently of the film that generated it. People use “Sophie’s choice” to mean any impossible decision between two equally terrible options, and a surprising number of them don’t know where the expression comes from. The film itself, directed by Alan J. Pakula and adapted from William Styron’s 1979 novel, is about that origin: Sophie Zawistowski (Meryl Streep), a Polish survivor of Auschwitz living in postwar Brooklyn,…
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I watched this a while ago but couldn’t decide on what to say about Meryl Streep. She’s just that good
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Meryl Streep คว้า Oscar เป็นตัวที่สองจากหนังเรื่องนี้ ด้วยการรับบท Sophie หญิงสาวชาว Polish หลังเอาตัวรอดจากค่ายกักกันนาซีในช่วงสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 อพยพหนีมาใช้ชีวิตอยู่ Brooklyn แต่อดีตความทรงจำอันเลวร้ายและการตัดสินใจครั้งนั้น ยังคงตามมาหลอกหลอนไม่มีวันลบลืมเลือนจางหายไปไหนได้ raremeat.blog/sophies-choice-1982/
- Synopsis
- Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
- Director
- Alan J. Pakula
- Writer
- Alan J. Pakula
- Studio
- ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish Productions
- Country
- UK, USA
- Language
- English, Czech, German, French
- Year
- 1982
- Runtime
- 151 mins
- USA08 Dec 1982
- Canada08 Dec 1982
- Brazil13 Jan 1983
- USA04 Mar 1983
- UK14 Apr 1983
- Netherlands21 Apr 1983
- Germany06 May 1983
- Portugal25 Aug 1983
- Japan15 Oct 1983
- Hungary03 Oct 1985
- Netherlands03 Sep 2007
- Netherlands24 Apr 2013
- Netherlands15 Mar 2002
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