In the film, Glenn Close gave a wonderful performance, but the script itself was lackluster. The climax at the beginning of the story, the director is trying to catch it, but unfortunately he tried too hard. The plot that followed was so plain that one thought it opened the Nobel official documentary. Of course, the director has obviously not forgotten that he dug a huge earth-shattering hole before, interspersed in the documentary-style running account with flashbacks of the protagonists and couples when they met and fell in love when they were young, pretending to inadvertently shake out the burden that seemed to be buried with great care: the wife ghosted her husband. The only minor problem is that the director himself did not treat this as revealing the mystery, but hoped that in the next 2/3 of the time, the audience pretended not to know what happened, and in order to get a good impression, the audience had to cooperate with him. Many commentators stated that the film used seemingly mild means to accuse the patriarchal society of the cannibalization of women's personality and wisdom, but this film is really not worthy of such a grand theme. Perhaps what the director wanted to say is quite simple. If you want to be a model couple in the eyes of others, it would be nice to have someone who is a patient with Stockholm syndrome.
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The Wife negative comment
2022-01-09 08:03
Extended Reading
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Joan Castleman: I am a kingmaker.
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Joan Castleman: I can't do it anymore, Joe. I can't do it. I can't take it. I can't take the humiliation of holding your coat and arranging your pills and picking the crumbs out of your beard and being shoved aside with all the other wives to talk about some goddamn shopping trip while you, while you say to all the, the gathering sycophants that your wife doesn't write! Your wife, who just won the Nobel Prize!
Joe Castleman: So, if I'm such an insensitive and talentless fucking piece of shit, why the fuck did you marry me?