This look alone makes one want to be mean to them, but the director tries to convince us that the boring middle class has troubles too: the first to appear is Carter, a 26-year-old young writer and movie star. When his girlfriend broke up with him, he was heartbroken and had to go to his grandmother's house to find peace; the grandmother was a very neurotic old lady who always suspected that she was dying (at the end of the film, the director thinks that she really needs to die, To prove that the previous complaints were not moan); and grandmother's neighbor trader's family, and her high school daughter is depressed because her boyfriend who plays quarterback on the football team keeps getting into trouble with her, and she inexplicably hates her own. mother; • Meg Ryan played very depressed mother, a housewife's life has been boring enough, the husband is still having an affair, she recently found herself suffering from breast cancer ......
put such a tangle of broken things clear After that, half of the movie has passed. At this point, it can be concluded that if the second half of the film is not as exciting and exciting as a third-level film, there is no need to continue watching it. Of course, it couldn't be a tertiary piece, but what I didn't expect was that the next part was thinner and stickier than before, like a spider web stuck to the hair. The women in the film turn to Carter, endlessly pouring out their tragic stories to him (Carter says, "I'm such a good listener, I'm attracted to girls, I don't know why." Yeah. , we don’t know why), after the long and trivial conversation, they continued to be sentimental, sigh, swallow all kinds of potions and pills, weep gracefully with cigarettes in between, and weep in the rain. Meg Ryan even cut her own hair for it - even though it was a fake cut, it wasn't worth it at all. There is no real suffering, everything is just superficial and boring.
Carter's uncertainty about his future, inexplicable sadness, and emotional entanglements with his neighbor's mother and daughter are obviously imitating the classic "The Graduate", but they can't resonate with the audience like the latter. It seems that Carter doesn't really want to. Change your pampered life (and sometimes show off), and your vision is so narrow that the whole world seems to exist only within a block.
The 27-year-old screenwriter and director Jonathan Kasdan is the second son of the famous Hollywood screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan (it is no wonder that his screen debut can invite a large number of A-list stars to help him), this film can also be watched Cheng is his autobiography. In the film, he borrows Carter's words to say: "Since I was 15 years old, I wanted to write something I really wanted to write", but he could not find it in the script he wrote at the age of 26 No matter how many sincere and credible elements, it cannot be said that he was born dull. I think it is because of the lack of experience and hardships that he has nothing special to express.
I was relieved by the film's ending song, and then realized that "Women's Land" turned out to be a comedy. Can't think of anything funny at all, presumably because it's hard to laugh if you feel like a fool who spent a full 100 minutes focusing on young people's emotional issues.
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