I have to admit I was less than thrilled to watch this movie without subtitles, but amazed at how much I was able to understand without them.
Carol was such a great character. Her story was worth telling. Her maternal grandparents living so far away and not having a close relationship with them. Then to be thrown into living in a foreign country, though she spoke the language wonderfully, because her father was fighting in the war. Only then to lose her mother too, and then in the end her best friend as well.
She definitely represented the cold climate with her behaviors. She was not willing to conform to the society's ways, she was not afraid to fight for her things, her diary, her hat. She had a wonderful spirit and lived true to it.
I thought she handled every situation in stride. She developed a wonderful relationship with her grandfatherm and he with her. I would have enjoyed understanding their conversation, in particular the one when he goes out looking for her only to find her high in the tree. Surely not where he expected her to be.
Would have enjoyed this movie with subtitles.
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I have to agree it was frustrating to watch a film not know exactly what was being said. On another note though you could kind of get the gist of what the point was in each scene. I agree there was a more-or-less cold climate sense that I got from carol too. Or maybe it was how her family was treating her that made her seem cold climate. They were not exactly the warm and fuzzy type family. And then to lose two very important people in her life did not help matters. But as a whole I did like the film even though the dialouge was missed.
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