Madonna is a singer, not an actress. However, I think she did just fine in this movie. It has absolutely nothing to do with whom she married. She played her part of the snooty socialite turned humbled woman just fine. This movie was the perfect example of an unexpected, ragged love. I feel that it can be seen as one of the greatest love movies ever; it is tragic, it is something that could happen. It isn't like all the other love stories that have come and gone. It does not work out perfectly in the end, unfortunately as viewers will come to find. It was real, and not the fairy-tale romance we often see in modern and even older movies. The storyline itself made me realize through one line that sometimes what we want is not exactly what we need. I felt that was the message throughout the entire movie as Amber basically was stripped of her "good life" and was forced into being with Pepe and eventually becoming his lover. Call me crazy for loving Swept Away, but this movie made a deep point about true love, and love that isn't so real. It wasn't some overdone Hollywood flick. It had glamor and glitter, but it still held on to a piece of true human life.
Review of Swept Away
