Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

whoiskevinjones What happens when you watch Safe (1998) and you identify with Carol White?To many observers Carol's condition must seem unimaginable. But to someone dealing with deep depression and anxiety this portrayal hits very close to home. The only salvation provided is that when everything is stripped away the self remains. For many that may sound incomprehensible but for Carol and myself, the finding of self is the only chance at salvation.Watch and see how closely you empathize with Carol. Like me, you may want to watch it alone and keep an open mind.

onetoten Millions of people in every democracy have illnesses for which there is no correct diagnosis. The lucky ones eventually find out what's "wrong" with them. Here we have a woman who has everything to live for until she suffers from something that no one can understand and often doubt.Julianne Moore carries this film as its central character. The supporting & surrounding characters cover the attitudes of doubt, resentment, paternalism, empathy, indifference, ignorance, apprehension, caring, understanding & compassion. Carol White's submissive personality & helplessness at first results to her becoming victimized by those looking for a quick solution to her pain. On its surface, this film is about Carole and her illness. On another level, it's about a chain of unfortunate events that can overtake our lives. Unless we go through it ourselves, we cannot fully understand the loneliest chapters in other people's life story.

jm10701 Beautifully written, directed and acted movie about a rich Los Angeles housewife going insane and blaming it on environmental toxins (sort of like the nuts nowadays who think their Teflon pans and plastic wrap are trying to kill them). Having found no doctor who can help her, Carol takes refuge in a creepy new-age cult in the desert - but instead of getting better she gets much worse.The story itself is pretty lame, but the extremely subtle and intelligent dialog, the absolutely perfect direction, editing and photography, and Julianne Moore's tight, brutal performance make it fascinating. I can understand why it won some obscure award as the best movie made during the 1990s, but it doesn't seem dated at all. I could easily believe it was released last year, and the fact that Moore has hardly aged at all in 20 years would back me up.

Ted Todd Haynes's Safe is married to its era's increased awareness of plastic toxicity: where the world had once embraced plastics as miraculous new wondersubstance, its environmental implications were at last coming to the forefront. There is tension, however, in the toxicity of plastic's chemical origins and the sterility promised in its final form: overwhelmed by the omnipresence of invisible chemical fumes, protagonist Carol White finds refuge in a plastic oxygen mask. The irony of her reliance on plastics mirrors her relationship to larger systems of oppression in the film: in escaping her claustrophobically prescriptive suburban life, she finds even greater claustrophobia and restriction on her anti-chemical reservation; she must strain herself to find the new environment any sort of improvement. The film offers a clever commentary on our relationship to the social systems above us, and comes recommended in spite of its occasional intentional dullness. –TK 11/11/10