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Go Now [VHS]

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"Go Now" is one of those foreign film love stories that'll tug at your heart strings the moment you realize the main character's fate. Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) stars as Scottish soccer player Nick Cameron, who, when just upon reaching the apex of his full athletic potential, is suddenly and gradually stricken with Multiple Sclerosis. As Nick's physical condition worsens, it is up to his girlfriend Karen (Juliet Aubrey) to help Nick see his way through his difficult struggle. Karen is urged at the hands of her best friend to leave Nick, but she (Karen) feels she needs to be around him to be of help and for added companionship. At the same time, Karen feels she is missing out sexually, so she is seeing someone else in the meantime to satisfy her needs in this department. Still, she feels Nick needs her, who, because he feels that Karen feels sorry for him, Nick urges her to leave him, but she refuses. "Go Now" is a heart-warming story that'll possibly bring a tear to your eye. The main problem with this picture is that it's extermely short, at under an hour-and-a-half long. Despite this minor inconvenience, "Go Now is a must-have film to add to your video collection!

Typical of european films Go Now takes a very small slice of life and puts it under a microscope. Here a working class couple are shown dealing-or not-with the everyday issues which arise when he is stricken with ms. The film accuratly reveals the impact of the disease process on every aspect of the couple's life. The acting is powerful and truthful. The subtext reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the human spirit when challenged by life altering circumstances.

Altho a little hard to understand, due to the strong accents, it is an accurate depiction of the trauma and emotional upheaval of being diagnosed with a chronic and unpredictable disease--from one who has walked in his shoes. It touched my heart and soul.

Shortly after my MS diagnosis, my girlfriend at the time excitedly told me about this movie she saw in a local bargain art movie house on a free day. We rented the movie, and wow... obviously I'm closer to the subject than most, having MS, but dealing with adjustment, pain, and self-identity all while trying to stay connected to those close to us is the universal human condition, right? Robert Carlyle is great as usual. The icing on the cake was the terrific soundtrack. While Carlye's character is given a spinal tap, 'Three', by Massive Attack, plays in the background: 'Three's my lucky number, And fortune comes in threes... Oh, I'm missing everything I knew... Yet wish i knew nothing at all...' A soulful look at when your number comes up.

You really feel for Carlyle's character and all that he goes through in the movie. I had to pause at one point and get some tissues. I found it sad, but with a lot of hope.

I had to hunt down a used VHS tape to see this touching and real film. I found it to be one of the few films that actually made me tear up. It's a real shame it's not out on DVD.

Robert Carlyle gives a very moving performance in this riveting film. It deals with MS in a very real way.

Honest example of life on the inside of an extraordinary MS-tery

GO NOW

A touching, uplifting film by the same folks that brought you the depressingly gritty TRAINSPOTTING a few years back. GO NOW is the story of Nick Cameron played by Robert Carlisle, a rugby player and his girlfriend and their life together. This may sound boring, but it's a well acted and like many films from the UK, very under played and cast with real looking people. It's slow pace might annoy American viewer used to US films, but we get to know the characters in this story. I felt like I was meeting real people as opposed to cardboard characters we find in so many Hollywood flics. We first meet Nick as a very uncoordinated, "blind" rugby, (or is it soccer?) player, the victim of the coach's verbal abuse and scorn of his "mates". A construction worker by day, he quickly finds his life making several uncomfortable turns when he looses his grip on a heavy hammer as he climbs up to his work site on a new building. With love and support from Karin his girlfriend he faces challenges no one should ever have to.

"Go Now", the old Moody Blues classic is heard throughout the film. I am a long time Moody Blues fan and GO NOW caught my attention simply by the title and the use of the song in the film. "Go Now", the song is strange choice for a song at the film's ending. The theme of the song and the theme of the movie do not match. But the movie, in spite of it's mismatched theme and title is still a good film.

However, the depiction of premarital sex and co-habitation and liberal use of the "F" and "S" words makes it inappropriate for kids.

If I were to rate it on a zero to five scale I'd give it a 2.5

robert carlyle....brilliant as ever