Loneliness and isolation can be stifling and unbearable, but one of the things that help one overcome it are friendship and acts of kindness, sometimes from people we barely know. A warning, I’m going to spoil the movie’s plot, in order to make a proper analysis.
That is what happens in Scent of a Woman, an American remake of an Italian movie of the same tittle, when an aging colonel (Al Pacino) and a young student in a prestigious academy (Chris O’Donnell) meet for a thanksgiving weekend. To be more precise, Charlie, the student, takes on a job to keep Lieutenant Colonel Slade company while his family is away for the weekend. However, Slade is a very difficult person to be around, and is being afflicted by blindness, that brings about a deep depression, or just plain unwillingness to live.
The plan for the weekend is changed once the family leaves and Colonel Slade persuades Charlie to come with him to New York, in order to carry out a perfect plan to end his own life. And all the steps go more or less according to plan, until Charlie’s own values and actions end up saving the colonel. Charlie’s own affliction, to snitch or not on his own colleagues that carried out a prank in school, burdens him throughout the movie, as his own future as a poor student in a rich school is put on the line.
The movie’s climax is an amazing speech carried out by Colonel Slade that saves Charlie’s future, in a way saving the one who saved him. The speech itself is something of excellence, as Al Pacino’s delivery is amazing and makes everyone watching, including ourselves, hang on every word.
It is a beautiful movie about hope, friendship, loneliness and salvation. In the end it’s a great deviation from the original Italian movie, a great movie in its’ own right, but gives us a lesson about values and holding on to what you believe in, no matter what.
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