Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

phd_travel With a WW2 setting, a famous poet's story and good leads this movie should have been a really good one. I am a fan of both actresses Keira and Sienna and they do look quite lovely here. Keira looks most beautiful when she isn't smiling. She is a surprisingly good singer and it's quite fascinating to watch her sing. The Blitz parts are quite sudden and effective. The down side is the story itself isn't very pleasant. This love triangle is a bit painful to watch. I understand it is based on true events but the characters are realistically flawed. The mental breakdown of Cillian Murphy's character is quite frightening. And Keira's acting is quite good here. Sienna is alright too although her role is simpler. It shows Dylan Thomas in quite a realistic self centered way. Matthew Rhys is good as the selfish poet. I can see why the movie wasn't more successful. The story is unpleasant. The screenplay relied too much on rushed dialog to lay out key plot elements and it was hard to grasp what was happening sometimes. Maybe the direction could have been clearer when establishing the story lines and major events.

MBunge This film is about a portion of the life of famed English poet Dylan Thomas but, fortunately, it's not really about Thomas. This movie portrays him as a fairly contemptible twit who'd be worth nothing if he didn't have a way with words and if you've seen one tormented artist shaking his fist as the staid strictures of society, you've seen them all. No, The Edge of Love is about two women who orbited around Thomas for a time and they're both more fascinating and more inviting than he could ever be.During the Blitz-era of World War II London, Thomas (Matthew Rhys) was enlisted by his government to write propaganda and in between his adolescent fits of rebellion, he runs into his childhood love. Vera Phillips (Kiera Knightly) was a singer, mostly as entertainment in the subway tunnels converted into bomb shelters under London. While Thomas makes it clear he'd like nothing better than to get Vera back in the sack, he's quickly joined in London by him impertinent wife Caitlin (Sienna Miller) as Vera is relentlessly pursued by a dogged young soldier named William Killick (Cillian Murphy). The Thomases wind up living with Vera, all three of them reveling in the emotional and sexual tangle as a shield against the weight of war as Vera refuses to open up her heart to William for fear of losing him on some faraway battlefield.But when William is called to duty in Greece, Vera marries him only to be left alone and pregnant with his child. Vera moves back to Wales with the Thomases coming along and they wind up living in side by side bungalows. But the threesome that was so sheltering in perilous London grows sickly and twisted in the safe harbor of the countryside. None of them can control themselves and when a shell shocked William returns home yet remains distant from Vera, an act of betrayal leads to an explosion of tragic grief and pain.This film is like a gourmet meal where the main course is the wonderful performances of Kiera Knightley and Sienna Miller with an appetizer of Matthew Rhys and the dessert of Cillian Murphy. It certainly helps that war torn England is an almost endlessly compelling backdrop, but these 4 actors are what fill you up. Rhys is the least of them but only because, with all respect to his performance and the famous man he portrays, we've seen this sort of character over and over again. It's the other three that really make The Edge of Love run. Knightley is superb as a young woman who finds her strength amidst falling Nazi bombs only to see it seep away when she leaves the life of an independent city girl for the supposedly more comforting role of a country wife and mother. This story is really about Vera and Knightley proves up to the task of bearing a greater burden than the others. Not that Miller doesn't carry her own weight and then some. Her Caitlain is a woman of mind and will to equal or surpass her husband, but without his talent and that is the tie that binds them together despite all their personal peccadilloes. The artist needs his true audience and the audience needs her true artist. Murphy also unexpectedly soars playing the most ordinary person of the three and the only one who goes through a truly extraordinary experience to come out changed on the other side. The soldier who could uncomfortably tolerate being the lesser man to Dylan Thomas in London comes back the husband and father who can no longer stand it.Now, as a piece of entertainment, The Edge of Love may start a bit slow and hang around a bit too long and it does a Shakespeare-In-Love-thing where it matches Thomas' poetry to events in his life, which you may find grating or endearing. But if you like skilled actors taking you on a tour of the troubled hearts and minds of people you wish you could've known…this is the movie for you.

dbborroughs Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller stars in the story of two of the women in the life of Dylan Thomas. Knightley is Thomas's boyhood sweetheart he re-encounters during the Blitz. Meeting at a bar they reconnect, however things become complicated when Thomas' brings his wife (Miller) along the next time he meets her. The women hit it off and things proceed at pace until the trio are joined by the man who will become Knightly's husband. This further complicates things as jealousy begins to show its face.Beautiful to look at, extraordinarily written and wonderfully acted (everyone disappears completely into their roles) this is a sumptuous feast for the eyes and the ears. It's so nice to see a film about adults being adults. On a purely visceral level I really enjoyed watching the film because the film is so artistically pleasing. Rarely have I ever seen a film that is this beautifully crafted.The trouble with the film is I'm not entirely sure of everything that happened. Something seemed to be missing and a couple of times I had to replay the film to see if I missed something. Its not bad, but its not completely satisfying as a result. (I tried to look up on line to see how much of the film is true but I couldn't find anything) Still I think this is a film worth seeing. It's a beautiful film for adults with probably the best acting the leads have done.

thien314 i can't believe how dumb this movie truly is. the storyline (written by keira knightley's mother) is what ruins the movie to the extreme. it is straight out dull, absurd, and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever...this movie lagged so bad for most of it, especially at the beginning. the story just kept going on and on about their everyday flirts with each other, often times seeming like a threesome. in this movie, you have an annoying deadbeat couple (the poet and his wife) who are complete total drunks from the start. the wife sleeps around with other men to make ends meet, while the poet is a pervert who thrives on cheap boos and women. the wife, who waaayyyyyy too quickly becomes friends with his former childhood lover (played by keira) suddenly gets jealous, knowing full well that the two were lovers since they were kids. something doesn't seem right here....i mean, come on... get with the program lady! what'd you expect.bottom line is: former lovers meet again with new wife embracing it, then gets jealous, then former woman lover gets married and her husband gets jealous, bombards the crazy drunk couple's home, crazy husband calls police, and they end up going to court for the man's attempted murder charges. that's it summed up in a nutshell...this movie had it's moments such as the quality and good acting by cillian murphy, but other than that, i cannot believe i watched it... i complained about it during the movie and some family members watching it with me fell asleep. i decided to give it a chance and i should have stuck to my first instincts.