Some movies create fantasy, some movies are interspersed with real and fake, and some movies show the "real" after filtering. "August: Osage County" dissects the truth layer by layer, regardless of whether it is decent or not, whether the value is wrong or right.
During the movie watching, the scene that impressed me the most was that the mother and daughter were in the car. The mother suddenly felt nauseous. After getting out of the car and vomiting, she began to run into the roadside plain like crazy. At this time, only Barbara chased her mother. The other two daughters chose to stand by the car and wait, as if this were a normal thing. In the minds of the general public, no matter what, children always think about their parents, and the same is true of parents, they think about their children, right? But this movie tells you another truth: it doesn't seem to be all that.
About Violet: She has been living in the shadows brought by her childhood and her family I also heard Violet viciously scolding the 3 daughters who have excellent living and education conditions, but all of them have achieved nothing and live in nonsense. The truth is that Violet has always been jealous of his 3 daughters, and has always been disappointed with the "nothing" of the 3 daughters. She can only use drugs to escape the truth that she has cancer, her husband is an alcoholic, and her children are not filial.
About Barbara: The father's favorite among the three sisters, seems to have the clearest mind and is very decisive about his life. As a mother, I am trying to change my mother's old path. Most of the time, I can be tolerant and tolerant, but sometimes I can't help but lose control, so it can be seen that my daughter doesn't like Barbara very much, and even resents her. And the husband also said that she is actually very good and smart, but sometimes she is really pain in the ass. Barbara can only face the hard truth that a young woman who seems to be gentle and loves her husband is cheating on her and wants to leave her.
About Karen: It can be seen that Karen is the most detached of the three sisters. As the youngest child, she left home early and often changed her boyfriend. Karen still retains the innocent nostalgia for her childhood home, and she also wants to return to the childhood fortress with fond memories. Knowing that a fiance who has been married three times hooked up with an underage niece, he did not forget to condemn his niece as being responsible, and chose to leave with his fiance overnight.
About Ivy: Ivy is the most kind and forbearing daughter. She was suppressed by her mother since childhood and was the least outstanding child, but she has always stayed in her hometown and silently assumed the responsibility of taking care of her parents. Although they haven't found a partner for many years, they found the purest warmth in the whole movie from their cousin Charlie, who is not very intelligent. Unexpectedly, the day before she was going to go to New York with Charlie, she was told that Charlie was not her cousin, but her own brother. The debt owed by the previous generation, but Ivy and Charlie have to repay in this life. Everything is ironic and desperate.
Regarding Beverly, the father, who only appeared briefly in the opening scene, looks gentle and elegant, not like the "40-year-old alcoholic" as described by third parties. A former poet and professor, his life has been dominated by alcohol. But the truth that touched me the most was that the reason why Beverly was looking for the Indian maid was that someone would take care of his seriously ill and crazy wife after he left, because he probably had long foreseen the last children. will leave Violet. And he chose to end his life, probably because in such a difficult life, choosing to withdraw is really much easier than choosing to stay.
The most heart-pounding truth in the whole movie comes from the last conversation between Barbara and her mother. Barbara found out that her mother found out that her father was going to commit suicide early in the morning. She had a chance to stop it, but she chose to get the money from the safe first, and then called the police and notified everyone. . This was the last straw that broke the camel's back, making Barbara realize that the old woman in front of her was hopeless and that she still had more than half of her life to live, so she resolutely drove away.
But the truth is broken, and then what? We didn't wait for redemption. Because of the opportunity of Beverly's disappearance and death, everyone had to face their own part of the truth in front of everyone's eyes, and then they all returned to their "nonsense" in disgrace. So in fact, there is no then, and there is no so-called finale. Time will flow forever, and nonsense will continue to be repeated, again and again.
View more about August: Osage County reviews
