Generally speaking, if there are more than four films nominated for best picture or best director in one Oscar, which makes me very excited, this year's Oscars are considered to be of a good standard. That was the case with the 2000 Oscars, a year where nominations for best film included American Beauty, The Cider House Code, The Green Mile, Insider, and The Sixth Sense. The best director was another. The terrific Becoming John Malkovich. Therefore, "Cider House Rules" should still be regarded as a very positive movie.
The film doesn't deal with sensitive or big themes like "American Beauty" or "Breakthrough," nor is it as stylized as "Becoming John Malkovich." Basically this is a very down-to-earth movie, but it can be seen that this movie has accumulated some life experience, intelligent or sad, which makes this movie have a kind of silent moving power.
The Cider House Code is about a teenager Homer who grew up in an orphanage, where he has been raised since he was not adopted as a child. The director of the orphanage carefully cultivated him and taught him all the skills of gynecological surgery. But Homer never left the orphanage, he wanted to see the outside world, where is his place. So he left the orphanage and turned from a surgeon to an apple picking worker. He experiences the joys and sorrows of this world and seeks his true self.
The appeal of The Cider House Code is its delicate emotional truth. In fact, there are no heart-wrenching paragraphs in the whole movie. Homer, who grew up in an orphanage, is more accustomed to hiding his emotions. However, the film uses a lot of details to slowly show the young man's heart, every subtle move, and indeed has the ability to lift weights with ease.
Therefore, when the boy finally returned to the orphanage, everyone who tried to find the true self or who had tried to find it should be moved.
Fortunately for Homer, he finally understood what he meant to the world and what to do. And more people just stay in the state of chrysalis all their lives.
Plus, the film is based on a best-selling novel of the same name. The film won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2000.
IMDB score of 7.4 (22,428 votes), I give it a 7.
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