Biographical films and reality are too different, so documentaries are too great

Edgardo 2022-10-22 11:06:47

When watching this film, I first saw Joplin's photos and performance videos, and then searched for stills, but I gave up hope for this movie. Indeed, the movie is a documentary about the actor. Joplin has no chest, and his figure is not so unattractive, ah, and the temperament of an actress does not match Joplin at all. You can't imitate another person, you can't even be her shadow. Let's just ask him, the little freckles of a Danish girl who pretended to be drunk was also drunk. Freckles you can pretend a little more melancholy. Raise your hand to complain about the quality of a professional actor. When I watched Frida before, I felt like this woman was like an ugly duckling, with no aesthetic and spiritual appeal, and then I watched a real person, that's what all biopics are doing. It is better to look at a photo than a biography. Might as well listen to gossip from people who know me. Movies are so disappointing sometimes. Overexertion is a common problem in biopics. Don't beautify, don't beautify, don't be intentional. All intentions are pretending.

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The Rose quotes

  • Rose: Ain't it just grand layin' there late at night in your bed, waitin' for your man to show up? And when he finally does, at oh about 4 o'clock in the mornin', with whiskey on his breath, and the smell of another woman on his person... Oh honey, I can smell another woman at 500 paces. That's a easy one to catch.

    [crowd gets really noisy]

    Rose: Oh, the women are getting nasty. So what do you do when he comes home with the smell of another woman on him? Do you say, "Oh honey, let me open up my loving arms and my loving legs. Dive right in, baby, the water is fine"? Is that what you say, girls?

    [the women in the crowd scream "No!"]

    Rose: Or do you say, "Fuck this shit! I've had enough of you, you asshole! Pack your bags. I'm putting on my little waitress cap and my fancy high-heeled shoes, I'm gonna go find me a real man. A good man, a true man."

  • Emcee: Thank you, Bitch... err, Butch!