The Singing Forest

Hollywood Independents | Release Date: November 14, 2003

2.0	USER SCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 52 Ratings

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HondoJ.Mar 9, 2007

Not as bad as others would have you to believe. Ameer, as one reviewer put it, could have chosen his reincarnated lovers from a different epoch, but his use of the Holocaust underscores the doomed nature of their eternal love affair. Indeed, Not as bad as others would have you to believe. Ameer, as one reviewer put it, could have chosen his reincarnated lovers from a different epoch, but his use of the Holocaust underscores the doomed nature of their eternal love affair. Indeed, they could have perished on the Titanic, and still have been reincarnated in time for their date with Nazi Germany. Ameer's rejection of such Hollywood convention as a James Cameron blockbuster is a sly dig at society itself, and epitomizes the young lovers. They reject common sense, their love is so overpowering and consuming. The inept pacing, acting, and cinematography is so bad it must be calculated, the logical extension of purposefully shaking the camera to simulate realism, a technique that runs rampant through Charles Schwab commercials and our crass consumer paradigm. Speilberg, Scorsese, and Cameron are veritable talents, but the rookie Ameer has pulled off a coup they would be hard-pressed to duplicate - the first Holocaust rom-com. It took an independent Hollywood to accomplish it!… Expand

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