A very interesting movie, the plot setting is a bit like Gone Girl: a woman disappears for some reason inexplicably, and reappears due to external pressure, during which there are many doubts and many twists and turns, which is quite attractive.
The difference: The film is a bright light comedy style, and all the thrills take place during the day. Based on Darcey Bell's debut novel of the same name.
Some critics said the film was "broken", but it wasn't. The lines and endings are still mainstream values. The characters are complex and interesting. Women are always placed in a certain frame, and this film caters to a certain stereotype of the audience to a certain extent - whether it is a scheming bitch or a silly white sweet, it can be seen everywhere in the comments. The film also reminds women of the balance between career and children.
The actors are star-studded.
Blake Lively plays a successful mother who works as a PR manager for a fashion company. Still taking the fashion route, also from the Upper East Side of New York, but different from the youthful beauty in "Gossip Girl", this film mostly shows people in three-piece men's clothing, which is said to be influenced by the daily dressing style of the film's director Paul Feig. Inspired: the buttoned up, three piece suit, bow tie, pocket square, cuff link wearing version. Other clothing inspirations came from Katherine Hepburn, Madonna, and Lauren Bacall.
Blake Lively, who played the villain for the first time, also participated in the character's costume design.
The cemetery reproduces the scene, Blake Lively wearing a white striped suit, stunning appearance, holding a skull cane is the director's personal collection. The director personally demonstrated how to use a cane, and Blake Lively also learned very well. The aura in the film is powerful and handsome.
Emily in the film is a heavy alcohol addict, while Blake Lively in real life is a drinker.
During the promotion of the film, Blake Lively personally demonstrated on stage how to make a British-style Martini like in the film.
Gin used to make Martini, gin, from Blake Lively's real-life husband, Deadpool Ryan Reynolds' company, Aviation (American) Gin.
Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding plays husband Sean. The character's setting was inspired by Cary Grant.
His lines: She's an enigma, my wife. You can get close to her, but you never quite reach her. She's like a, beautiful ghost. Impressed me.
His teaching assistant TA, who played Chen, one of the recruits, is also Asian.
Anna Kendrick plays the good mother, the good girl Stephanie, always called Saint. But she also has her own dark past: having sex with her half-brother, so that she doesn't know if the child is her husband's flesh and blood; her husband and brother quarreled in the car, resulting in a car accident, killing both of them.
Her lines: Everybody has a dark side. Some of us are better at hiding it than others.
The way the two women hide their past in the film is indeed different.
She told Emily about the conversation between the two after the incident:
Stephanie: [ Referring to Davis and Chris dying in the car crash ] It's my fault. I'm the reason they're both dead.
Emily: No. Hey, don't do that. People, people do terrible things for their own fucked-up reasons. That's on them, not on you.
Stephanie: Yeah. I miss him.
Emily: Which one?
Stephanie: Both. I'm lonely. I think loneliness probably kills more people than cancer.
The detective talked to her during the day, saying that he was just following the crumbs on the ground (according to the clues to detect the case), and Stephanie made a Caesar salad with crumbs for dinner.
Emily's pretending to be dead to cheat insurance plan is actually inspired by Stephanie. This is revealed by the husband in the film: because the widowed Stephanie is living on the life insurance left after her husband died in a car accident.
Stephanie has a total of 39 outfits in the film, starting with bright and happy mom styles, and slowly changing as she discovers more and more secrets.
The background music is mostly French songs from the 60s.
Another ending of the film can be seen on Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38816639/ .
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