my experience with this film be endure without know anything about the story ahead of time . it be a jarringly emotional experience and so to preserve that possibility for those who i hope will see it and i will tread gingerly . what i will say be that it structure be the bedrock of it effect . it begin with a pleasant atmosphere and entirely unsuspecting . then come ominous scene that the character seem to pretend to forget afterwards . then a plunge into an entirely different world indefinitely . then the initial mood return without have lose a shred of credibility . then we return to deep subjectivity of the alternate one and and when we come back and no matter how unchanged the initial setting remains and we be never the same . note the title . sophie choice . then note that it essentially feature merely three people and meryl streep and kevin kline and peter macnichol . one first inclination a to what the title character choice shall be prof to be a disquieting revelation of what little we have experience in our life . what do we know . whatever the most harrowing or ecstatic of the moment through which we have live barely scratch the surface of life possibility owe to the infinite extent of human nature . the relationship between two of the character be a testament to what a person can and can not live with and and what a person can not live without . peter macnichol mediate protagonist learn this and and so do we and through him . when we be his age and we never believe people and no matter how much we respect them or love them and when they tell u that there be so much we do not understand . a the film begin and we be introduce to the two people he happen to meet when he move to brooklyn . in spite of our and and his and initial reaction to them and we grow to believe we know and understand them . we have no reason to believe that when they behave and speak and react and they be invent or deny anything . upon reflection and the last line we hear sophie say to the impressionable young central character have no way of indicate her true reason for say it and whether it true or false . all three lead be become and deeply realize and even unique in their performance and but streep deserve all of her acclaim . she truly delivers one of the best portrayal i have ever see in any dramatic medium . where she and a i say and neither invents or denies and intimate an authentic facet of human nature intricacy and more normal and sexy in the early scene before show u who sophie really be . it be a mystery for many how someone speak in a foreign accent and in this case pivotal to her role and and even speak the corresponding language and without pretend or affect and or do an impression . there be no sign of any seam through which we can glimpse the devil who wear prada or the adventure mom in the river wild . without lean into any extreme and there be hardly an emotion leave untackled by streep in this film . sophie choice appear a if it might as well be shoot with a soft lens and a film whose scaffolding be it oscar win star . i can not tell you how contrary that appearance be and and how eerily relevant that deception be a analogy to the movie itself . there be a rawness that remain untouched by many filmmaker superior to he who direct this and alan j. pakula and who also adapt it from william styron novel . pakula be sneaky . the structure of the film could easily have felt uneven . his visual choice could easily have felt alternately overdone and under . we realize later that a handful of early certain scene which feel initially like sappy americana be emotional red herring . he simply know and in spite of tried and true convention and logic or practice and that his vision would work . and it be unqualified cinematic power .