leftovers of love

Erika 2022-08-30 19:34:51

Two and a half stars, ★★☆. The beginning of the movie fascinated me. The heroine receives a wedding invitation, with a series of complex expressions on her face, stunned, swaying, determined, and painful. I immediately conditioned it to guess that it was sent by my ex-boyfriend, but it turned out to be a best friend. Then I thought it should be a bloody love triangle. My best friend robbed her boyfriend or something, but I guessed it wrong. It turned out that the bestie's brother was her ex-boyfriend, and the relationship was a bit messy. The movie is called "Wedding Banquet Table No. 19", and the entire banquet has 19 tables. This table is a hodgepodge of the most indifferent leftover characters. The closest best friend gets married, and the heroine is invited to this table of idle people, full of malice, and the story becomes interesting. A wedding is a place to witness the new couple entering the marriage hall, an important milestone in life, and an occasion for people to meet friends and expand their social circle. But there are always some directors who like to use the sacred wedding to make trouble. It is not uncommon for those who shouted against it at the wedding to drag the bride away from the marriage. At the wedding, the scene of cheating and fornication has made enough people to be dumbfounded ("Savage Story"), and there are even people who kill at the wedding. That is director Quentin's bad taste ("Kill Bill"). The movie starts with a youth comedy. Among the guests at table 19 are a well-informed old woman, a black and white couple who sing and sing, a dumb boy who is too young with excess hormones of the opposite sex, and mysterious and secretive desires. The "successful people" who say nothing, there is also a graceful uninvited guest in the middle. This three-and-a-half-and-a-half-year period, a group of Luthers' intensive complaints and the women's keen intuition, and each other's black belly torn each other up, supported the laughing point of the whole play. All kinds of embarrassment and embarrassment fly together, absurd plots and black humor are everywhere, and there are many adult meat jokes, which is the funniest part. The novel falls quickly, especially when the topic-heavy element of the heroine's unplanned pregnancy appears, the movie turns from a light comedy to a warm and didactic. The love of the leftovers at this table includes the regrets of the elderly, the bickering of the couple, the dull loneliness of the parolee, the inexperience of the high school students who are overwhelmed, and the ambiguous encounter of someone else's groom. Not so perfect, but the most real. The final reunion ending was also expected, but the exaggerated comedy atmosphere of the previous paragraph was greatly diluted. The clichéd ending also makes it a popcorn movie that you will forget after seeing it.

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Table 19 quotes

  • Walter Thimple: Hello. My name is Walter and I'm a successful businessman.

    Donny Haczyk: Nice. What line of work are you in?

    Walter Thimple: I could ask you the same question.

    Donny Haczyk: Me? Oh, I'm in beer and wine distribution.

    Walter Thimple: Same.

    Donny Haczyk: Oh, you are?

    Walter Thimple: Yeah.

    Donny Haczyk: Ever heard of a guy named Donny Haczyk?

    Walter Thimple: Yes. He's a knobhead.

    Donny Haczyk: He's a what?

    Walter Thimple: A knobhead. Like a dickhead.

    Donny Haczyk: I'm Donny Haczyk.

    Walter Thimple: [awkward silence] Good to see you again, Donny.

  • Jerry Kepp: We 're ridiculous.

    Bina Kepp: We 're ridiculous? Everyone is ridiculous Jerry. Ok? You deal with it 'cause you have to.

    Jerry Kepp: Do you?

    Bina Kepp: Yeah, you do! That's life. You 're ridiculous and a mess. And you still hope that you 'll find someone who 'll think that you 'll be ok enough to be loved.

    Jerry Kepp: Is that what life is?

    Bina Kepp: Yeah, it is. And it's really weird that you don't know that by now!