remember saying to relatives and friends who went to the funeral, don’t expect to improve the relationship with the relatives who stayed behind in the big family, because some measures you think are appropriate not only cannot be caused by time. The estrangement caused by space, space, and even interest is more likely to make it worse. Before you go, you must be psychologically prepared to be wronged. Once the psychological construction is completed, no matter what treatment you encounter, you will not feel wronged anymore. .
It’s not that I’m pessimistic, but it’s in this village of the earth. Whenever a big family has major issues, no matter the wedding or funeral, many relatives and friends will gather together. Some small frictions accumulated on weekdays and long-hidden family conflicts will On this occasion where all members of the family gather and are all easily excited, they will explode sharply. If there is no psychological defense, then the injury can only be deeper...
Of course, this is also a kind of the world, so the light and shadow capture and reproduce these "Human mundane affairs", so the audience also saw a lot of other people's housework, and it is inevitable to think of the annoying things around them. Many things in the human world are in common. No matter which country, people cannot do without the troubles of the human world. For example, the troubles of growth, misunderstandings or contradictions over the years, subtle competition and competition, and the distribution and entanglement of interests are even more fascinating. What sighs is that the younger generations are vying for the inheritance. When everything is stripped and reproduced by the language of the lens, human beings are so astonished-are we really like that?
Noah Baumbach, the screenwriter and director of "The Squid and Whale", once again brought out his strengths this time, using a low, hopeless and slightly ironic image style to describe a scene full of conflict and absurdity. The story with a breath of life once again brought up the problems in the family, and described the complicated and inseparable contradictory relationship between the family members. It has been long-standing and impossible to be completely resolved, and it always pops out from time to time to torture the parties’ mood. , Squeeze each other's affection.
It can be said that "Margot at the Wedding" continues the style of "Squid and Whale", regardless of the narrative rhythm, atmosphere creation, or character modeling, but there are slight differences in color processing and photography techniques, a simple, There are some scenery, and the other is finer and more urban. In addition, in terms of the distribution of the plot development triggered by the characters, the two appear to be even more different. The characterization and narrative composition of "Squid and Whale" develops linearly and intersects, while the contradictions and conflicts of "Margot at the Wedding" It is scattered by points, this point is Margot, and she brings out the problems of other characters one by one by the mean and widowed.
The sensitive and acrimonious short story writer Margot (played by Nicole Kidman) took his son Claude to his old house in his hometown to attend the upcoming wedding of his sister Pauline. The sisters have not seen each other for many years. Gott’s explanation is “to support Pauline.” However, in fact, Margot’s support is “frightening” because she is a woman who is extremely harmful to the soul. She is self-righteous and ignores the self-esteem of others. Those who are pleasing to the eye will be accused, often making people around mad, that is, the so-called "you hurt me, but laughed off." This time, she was as picky and demanding as ever. She was not accustomed to her sister's way of life. She was even more indifferent to the obese and cowardly future brother-in-law. The body of her niece also gave her opinions, and even the education of Gobi neighbors to their children. There were also many dissatisfaction with the way, and then I discovered the privacy of the prospective brother-in-law...
Everything was like when she was young, Pauline (played by Jennifer Jason Lee) who was full of joy and welcomed her relatives to come to the ceremony and greeted her sister without any weakness. She was mean and made Margot a little bit ugly without losing the opportunity, but she still hoped that her sister could be her best friend, but this time, as always, she was disappointed. Fiance Malcolm (played by Jack Black)'s hobby exposure made her bewildered, especially in the presence of her sister who was already quite "criticized." Expose Malcolm’s privacy directly, but let Pauline find out for herself, which made her even more out of control. The past flooded like a flood, "I told you about my first marriage, and you wrote it down. , My first marriage was over as soon as "The New Yorker" came out..." Pauline denounced her sister's behavior and gave her an injection, "You know why my mother left the house to me instead of you... "
The film is also scattered with Margot’s childhood and marriage life, analyzing the reasons for her character formation, such as the unfortunate memory of her father in childhood, and also, when she was separated from her husband, she faced Pauline’s topic about her brother-in-law. It's a flicker. Here, the director did not use those fancy "flashback" techniques to reproduce the past, but a soothing and soft description. Through the dialogue with the needle hidden in the cotton, the director completed the three-dimensional "sculpting" of the role of Margot, which is destructive. The female writer of sexual personality is harsher to herself than to others. Unconsciously, she ruins the lives of others, and even messes up her own lives. That is, she drives others into desperation and makes herself desperate.
When Margot strongly supported Pauline to leave Malcolm and take his son, sister, and niece to live in a hotel, the sisters lying on a bed tried to find a sense of intimacy, but the reality is sometimes not dramatic. . The next day, Pauline could not help but call Malcolm, Malcolm cried like a baby like begging, so tough character and never Margot different beat, a different tone Pauline relented ......
credits Margot evaded other relatives and took her son to take the bus. She had insisted on letting her son go to her ex-husband alone, but at the last moment, stubborn and depressed, she changed her mind and caught up with her son’s bus and left with him. Go, just like the opening scene with her son. The difference is that when she came, she took a lot of luggage with her in large and small bags. When she left, she even lost her backpack, as if it meant that she had lost some of it. A burden that made her depressed.
The dialogue of the film is very familiar with the skill of the screenwriter. It is both witty and real and sharp. The performances of the two female protagonists are more exciting. They not only create two vivid female images, but also take the special feelings between the pair of sisters with disparate personality. , Like two hedgehogs who want to warm each other, the starting point and the actual effect are always far from each other. In terms of performance, Nicole Kidman appears to be more prominent. This time, she changed the screen image of many stunning costumes in the past, and reproduced with a plain face and low-key, full of depression in relaxation, and release of strong in coldness. A disgusting and poor dogmatic woman.
Some people think that the plot of the film is plain, the story is simple, it is not refined enough, and it does not have enough complex and changeable emotions. In fact, this is the reproduction of Baumbach’s subtle experience of life trivialities. Where does ordinary life come from? A "sensational" and tear-jerking, ordinary family members are mostly conflicts and disputes, which are not easy to resolve. Even if they are reconciled, they will turn over the old accounts once they encounter new problems in the future, and most of the time, conflicts and conflicts will always be lost. It broke out, and then people went on to live their own lives.
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