Now, McGee (played by Greta Geweig)'s plan is: She is preparing for artificial insemination. She found the sperm donor Guy, a mathematician who was switching to selling pickled cucumbers. McGee's accident: She fell in love with the teacher John (played by Ethan Hawke) from the same school. Anthropology professor John has a family (played by Julianne Moore) and a child. The boredom of his academic career gave him the idea of writing novels. On the night that McGee conceived himself, John confessed to her.
The director of the film Rebecca Miller, Arthur Miller’s daughter, and her husband is Daniel Day Lewis. And in the starring lineup: In my opinion, Greta Geweig’s roles are almost all new New York women ("Frances Ha", "American Hostess"); Ethan Hawke is also indecisive Scorpio man ("Love is in" trilogy); Aunt Moore once again appeared as a professor at Columbia University after "Still Alice".
Three years later, the embarrassment of marriage reappeared. With McGee's encouragement, John began literary creation. After marrying John, McGee was busy, besides his daughter Lily, he also had to take care of John's two children. In the last marriage, the ex-wife Georgia plunged into his career, and John gave more; and in this marriage, John spent more time immersed in his own world, McGee felt like a free nanny. McGee's new plan is: find an opportunity to bring John and Georgia back together.
Intimacy is really a subject that few people can pass, especially for modern people who are increasingly utilitarian and rational. Marriage is full of micro-power mechanisms. How to take care of family and career, how to divide labor, how to share the sacrifices and sacrifices, is a game again and again. Contemporary values tell us: Everyone has the right to pursue their dreams and realize their own values. No one is born to be a mother/housewife. Only by taking care of career and family is the winner of this era. However, as everyone knows, behind such a standard, there are so many incompetences and powerlessness. Modern people are really tired.
McGee and Georgia reached a consensus. An "accidentally" meeting at an academic conference, John and Georgia "accidentally" resurrected their old relationship. A colleague lost his words after drinking and let John know that he was caught in a trap set by two women. Everything fell into chaos, and McGee discovered that there is never a perfect plan. At the end of the winter in New York, all the characters gathered for skating in Central Park. Lily's inadvertent mathematical talents made McGee fall into another contemplation.
There has always been an informal genre: intellectual films. The protagonists are usually university professors, writers, artists and other mental workers. The lines are exquisite and interesting, full of wisdom, and self-deprecating. They claim to be the elites who produce ideas, but they still cannot escape from the embarrassing moments of life. Rebecca Miller, who grew up in a scholarly family, is well versed in the cultural interest of the middle class, as can be seen in her masterpiece novel (later also adapted into a movie) "Pippa Lee's Private Life": middle-class women How to grow from a hippie teenager to a business woman who conforms to social norms, but after discovering that her husband has cheated on her, how can she begin to search for herself? Rebecca's work is too standard to meet the tastes of the audience, but most of the time it is a bit predictable and boring. Most of the characters also have a-in layman's terms-"work" temperament, which makes people sometimes not like it that much.
At the premiere, Rebecca talked about a feature of the film’s lens language: the camera will always move to the space next to it when the two characters are talking, and then a few seconds later, the characters start to move to the camera. among. This playful lens language seems to imply that the audience can predict the next action of the characters, but they are full of uncertainty about their future.
This film is a bit similar to the work of Woody Allen mixed with stick-comedy elements. Of course, it is not very good, but we like to watch characters embarrassed on the big screen. Faced with the embarrassment of life, we laugh at the same time. , Seems to have resolved his embarrassment.
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