Good Wife: Use your whole life to convince yourself

Tanya 2022-01-09 08:03:04

It is also based on the family life of the elderly. "The Good Wife" is easy to think of the "45th Anniversary" of the previous two years. In line with the 45th anniversary, the heroines in the film are all women who forbear in family life. The role, in contrast, the male protagonist seems a bit naive. One of the plots in this movie that impressed me was that the old couple quarreled. The female protagonist vented to the male protagonist of her long-standing grievances that she had always pretended not to write in the public. The male protagonist asked helplessly, "Then why did you marry Me?" The hostess resisted tears and was at a loss, she could only say "I don't know."

After so many years of ghostwriting for her husband and the trivial life, the hostess has always maintained a rational and proper role as the woman behind the husband. In the process, she must have convinced herself that she is someone who does not want to be famous. He even convinced myself that everything he wrote was written by her husband, just as her husband tried to persuade her, "We are collaborators." The wife understands too well that everyone will have a destined role in their destiny. Although that kind of unwillingness will still be looming, it will not become the mainstream of life.

And why should she marry the male lead? Through the memories of the heroine, we can realize that although the heroine has the aptitude for writing, she is not favored by society, perhaps because of her gender, or because of her position. However, as her former mentor, the hero truly discovered her talent. And people who truly appreciate her and cherish her talents, not to mention that this man is also attractive, and it is normal for an intellectual woman like a heroine to fall in love with him. This leads to a problem. When we examine the relationship between a couple from the perspective of a bystander, we sometimes criticize why a better woman chooses a mediocre man. This difference is also reflected in the hero and heroine. . What kind of rights and inner experience do women, especially intellectual women, pursue in society? This topic has become more complicated in today’s society. However, in the hostess, what we see is that she has given up her reputation for the man she loves, and even persuaded herself to endure this kind of obscurity throughout her life, because she changed the achievement of a lover It became her dream, however, she never forgot in her heart that writing was also her dream!

At the award ceremony of the Nobel Prize in Literature, we can feel that the heroes and heroines have their values ​​torn apart. The hero has exhausted the last trace of bravery and did not tell the truth. The cowardice of the hero is the heroine. What they don't want to see may be the result they have spent their whole life expecting.

I like the ending of the film very much. After the death of the heroine, the heroine took her son and met a biographer who wanted to reveal the news on the return flight. If the heroine chooses to make all this public at this time, she and her husband will have no regrets. However, she calmly said to the ambitious writer, if you dare to expose all of this, I will take you to court. Smiling politely, without accusing or verbal abuse, leaving the writer's expression of astonishment, backfired and disappointed. However, at this moment, the heroine finally convinced herself: her husband is a world-famous writer and a Nobel Prize winner, and She is his wife, she used to be, she is now, and she will be in the future.

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Extended Reading
  • Pattie 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    I also think too much about writing.

  • Conor 2022-04-22 07:01:43

    The woman behind the writer is reminiscent of "The Adelmans", but compared with the latter's protracted French love entanglement, this film is a fixed-frame twilight marriage, which is bound to be a bit more fatigued. The story revolves around the Nobel Prize incident. While arousing the conflict between husband and wife, it also revealed the secret of the wife's suppressed talent. The screenwriter is not very good, at least the suspense is not made, and the flashbacks are very perfunctory. Of course, the good old drama also benefits from the actors. Performance.

The Wife quotes

  • 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?

  • Joan Castleman: There's nothing more dangerous than a writer whose feelings have been hurt.