In fact, the story goes like this. The successful and beautiful female lawyer Claire's family of three lives in the suburbs of LA, her son is lively and lovely, and her husband has a successful career. But in a sudden car accident, Claire lost her son, and she was traumatized both physically and mentally. One of the community mutual aid groups she participated in, Nina, committed suicide by jumping off a bridge from the highway. Claire found Nina's husband and learned a little bit about Nina's story. In understanding, she gradually became less angry, gradually overcoming her psychological barriers, began to forgive, and began to try to come out.
I think Tobin's story is really good. In fact, if the story is written backwards like the above, (please cooperate with the narration in Dole Universal Pictures), it is just a very general cliche. Just follow the way I am the protagonist and I am happy, and I am the protagonist so headstrong. Isn’t it because they are sick? They have trauma in their hearts. They have to cry for a long period of time, they have to cry for a long period of time, they have to be hysterical for a long period of time, they have to speak bad words if they have nothing to do, and they have to severely hurt everyone who cares about them. Own people.
However, Tobin's family held it. People don't write that way.
The story unfolds very slowly, one after another. We saw the scar on Claire's face, we watched her falter, we saw a large picture of Nina, why did Nina commit suicide? We heard the message on her mobile phone. . Who is that? Then Jason appeared, with the same voice as in the message, saying the same thing. Then why don't they live together? So the audience followed the author in a daze, watching how this grumpy and ugly, almost useless woman lives and interacts with people.
Cake is very good at shaping Claire. Such an unwelcome female neuropathy is not easy to be loved in theory. Who doesn't like sweetheart baby like that? Even if she looks sorry, Chu Chu is poor. Kind of beauty. But the screenwriter didn't give Claire any pitiful attributes, she was a person who completely gave up on life. What should a person completely give up on life? Are you smoking, drinking, gambling, drugs? Still eating and waiting to die? No, people who completely give up on life have to live. It has to be rebuilt, it has to be babbled by the nanny, even if pornographic, gambling, drugs have to buy drugs, right? The biggest difference between people who completely give up their lives and normal people is that they don’t give a fuck. They don’t give a fuck. I can tell everyone around me not only with words but also with actions, Fuck off.
What I particularly like about Claire is that she is a very mean person, who talks badly but is funny. She doesn't care if you are uncomfortable, she said anyway, if you are uncomfortable, you deserve it. She doesn't appear as a victim as commonly imagined, such as always being particularly deep sad and melancholic, or having a complete breakdown at a certain moment and using a large monologue to tell what happened. I don’t want to interpret her cynicism as digging into the dark side of my heart. This is an ordinary person who sees things and complains when life is unsatisfactory. As the movie puts the story together bit by bit, I see it as a living person. , Her emotions have ups and downs, you know why she is so annoying, and you know why she hates the world.
Like all happy ending or movies that want to please the audience, you know she will change, and you know from the beginning that all this misery will pass. But thanks to the screenwriter, I didn’t make the protagonist suddenly wake up the next day like being struck by lightning and start to be positive and optimistic. Just like in all Disney movies, there is a cutscene, the protagonist is busy turning around, waiting for the music to stop. A new and perfect personality appeared. That's impossible. No one can grow up overnight, and it takes 21 days, 30 days, and 100 days to develop a habit. How can it be possible to get out of a psychological shadow in only three or two days. So even if it was the beginning, everyone was happy.
I think it's a bit cheap to make Nina appear as a ghost. Claire is expressive enough, but it's still not enough. And Nina's jumping off the building is a bit far-fetched, and Roy doesn't look like a particularly violent person. Maybe it can be more enriched. And then the cake appeared a little hastily. There is also the relationship between Claire and Silvana. There is obviously an emotional interaction, so in the end, I still help her drive. As a movie, it's a bit not addictive, but as a human being so sophisticated, it's very appropriate.
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