(December 4, 2009)
Like most people, this movie was more than expected, because I have some subconscious resistance to Renee Zellweger's smile, but don't think it's her unbreakable performance.
It's still a story about finding. The woman leaves Playboy's husband and takes her two children all the way to find someone they can trust. They meet all kinds of men, but it is not the ultimate goal. In the end of the film, the woman gives up, but they find each other's understanding and understanding along the way. Love.
Renee Zellweger, this should be the best performance I've seen since "Bridge Jones Diaries" (excluding the role challenge of "Cold Mountain"), full of mother aura, and suddenly denied my previous "she doesn't fit" play mother". The mother portrayed by the screenwriter is quite real. She doesn't know the child's shoe size, or his favorite color and book. She is such a seemingly incompetent mother, but she has been looking for the one she doesn't love but can do for herself and her child. Entrusted to the person for life, in order to become a qualified mother, make unremitting efforts. This is also not a feminist film, because although women in the 1950s were liberated (the women's toilets mentioned in the film, etc.), they were still traditional. Here it is shown that, in fact, no matter how much her husband cares, she loves the most. The man is still him. And Renee Zellweger completed this task with extra points, those conservative and fighting, those complicated emotions, and the mother's communication, patience, strength, confidence, stability and humor, all because her performance seemed ordinary and great. In fact, these are things that we usually find hard to detect in our own mothers, because the people closest to us are often unfamiliar, right?
Also, the soundtrack is fantastic.
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