"Friends With Money" doesn't have a specific story; it's just about the lives of four women and the men in their lives. There's a lot of dialogue between them, a lot of good dialogue, which makes the movie so worth savoring. I played it twice in a row, and I didn't get bored. And when I played it for the second time, I found a lot of highlights that were overlooked when I watched it the first time.
The protagonists of the movie are four women and four good friends. One is poor, lonely, and depraved (played by Jennifer Aniston), while the other three are rich, but behind the perfect life is a less glamorous and happy life (played by Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack, and Frances McDormand). The movie seems to be taken from their lives and placed in front of our audience. I think the most commendable part of this movie is the truth. After all, movies like Hollyu are in the minority.
The only star among the four actresses is Jennifer Aniston, who has always disliked her and feels that she has too many traces of a Leu star. But I have seen some movie reviews about this movie before, and they all said that this was Jennifer Aniston's best performance since the film. After watching the movie, I have to admit that she did a good job. Although there are some scenes that are still a little bit Leu-like, the overall feeling is very good. She portrayed the embarrassment and helplessness of a single middle-aged poor woman, which made me sad. She didn't have a single crying scene in the whole play, only one desperate look in her eyes, and the pain in her eyes when she faced life and forbearance again and again.
Jennifer Aniston's occupation is a house cleaner, and her three scenes impressed me: a guest in a house like a pig's den, and when she bargained with her, hoping that she could reduce her salary, her eyes showed her The conflict and struggle in her heart finally gave in; her new boyfriend said he wanted to accompany her to where she worked, and they had a relationship there. Later, when Jennifer Aniston counted her salary, the man asked her She asked for money and said that she also helped her clean the room. She looked at him with such despair in her eyes; she wore sloppy clothes, went to the cosmetics counter in the shopping mall, pretended to understand cosmetics well and asked the consignee for samples of new products , and then asked them one by one, and finally placed a neat row of samples on her dresser. She did a great job in these three scenes.
Frances McDormand is one of my favorite American actresses. Most of the attention to this movie is because of her performance. Her performance is very capable and not procrastinating, which I appreciate. Of course, she's still great in this movie. She plays a famous costume designer, rich, with a lovely child and a lovely husband. Maybe because life is so perfect, it seems that there is nothing worth looking forward to or longing for, and life becomes boring. So she became irritable and unreasonable and began to argue with others constantly. I felt that she was actually struggling with herself, struggling with the lifeless self in her heart, to find a balance in her life.
She has to be praised for her vivid interpretation of a typical menopausal middle-aged woman. She has a scene that I think is the most exciting in the whole movie. After shopping at the supermarket, she waits in a long line to pay, and she finally gets her turn and is cut in line, which leads her to stage a "shrew" scolding the street, and finally she was asked to leave by the supermarket manager like a lunatic. She looked helpless and aggrieved, and threw away the things she was going to buy. It is exported glass. It was really funny. I laughed out loud, but after the laughter, I felt a pain in my heart. Maybe she was unreasonable, but at that moment she was really down and pitiful. Because of menopause, she will magnify a small thing many times, so she will be very dissatisfied with the usual line-cutting behavior.
Plus, she can't control her emotions, so she is angry. She pinned her hopes on other consumers and cashiers in the queue, hoping that they could make a fair judgment, but everyone disagreed. So she gets even more angry, she swears swear words, she asks to see the manager, and the manager asks her to leave before she has heard her explanation. Her eyes were red and she was swearing, because she didn't understand why the world was so unfair. Finally, the whole person touching the glass is the climax of this "farce", because in everyone's eyes, she has become a real clown. In addition, every time she appears in the movie, her hair gets worse every time because she doesn't wash her hair anymore. The reason is that she is lazy and feels tired when she lifts her arms. In fact, she was just longing for a change because she used to treat shampooing as a very important "life event." In the end, when she looked at a cabinet of high-end shampoo she had bought, she told her husband that, in fact, whether it was expensive or cheap, they all contained the same s**t, and smiled.
In addition to Frances McDormand, American actress Catherine Keener also had a wonderful performance. She plays a female writer who, in the film's opening, is planning a house remodel with her husband, listening to the engineer explain things with a model, and the two look so sweet. In the end, because of this plan to renovate the house, their marriage came to an end. During the years of marriage, she had been deliberately avoiding and forbearing the problems with her husband and putting them on the table one by one. She married a very selfish and seriously macho man. She was always verbally insulted and hurt by her husband in her life.
She didn't get the respect and love she deserved, but she kept avoiding this fact. When she found that the neighbors ignored her and hid when she saw her, it turned out that it was not because of the noise made by their renovated house that affected everyone, but because of the third floor they added on the second floor (her husband's plan). When it completely blocked the view and light of other residents, she ran home in surprise, regret, and sadness, and told all the workers who were under construction to stop working. Their family would not renovate the house and asked everyone to leave. I was very moved because of the kindness and understanding in her character, while her husband rushed out to get angry. At this point, she was completely disappointed with this man.
There is also a very interesting detail in the movie; that is, Catherine Keener will always accidentally hurt herself, such as twisting her feet and stepping on hard objects on the floor, or knocking her knees on the coffee table. When she and her husband quarreled about the house's repair, she was so angry that she accidentally burned her hand while cooking. She asked her husband why I accidentally hurt myself, and he never asked or didn't care. The husband said, "What do you want from me? It's not a big deal at all." In this way, she understood that their marriage should be over. Catherine Keener did a good job; she was very natural and lovely.
I don't know much about Joan Cusack, an actress. I often see her playing supporting roles in many very ordinary films. She is also the one with the least role among the four women in this movie. She played a typical rich lady in the United States. She didn't have a job. When she was bored, she began to think about things and worry about other people's affairs. I think there should be many such women in the United States. Their lives are very boring and they have no right to make decisions at home. In the movie, she is regarded as a woman with the most peaceful life, but in fact, she is quite sad. There's a scene where Jennifer Aniston asks her to borrow money, and she tells Jennifer Aniston that she can't call the shots. Jennifer Aniston was very angry and said that you can't even decide this and asked her what life she is living now. She said she enjoys her life, not that she has nothing to do, and that it makes sense to take care of the children at home. When Jennifer Aniston said, "It's simply the babysitter you hired to take care of the children." A dazed expression flashed across her face. I think Joan Cusack is a little overdone in a few places, but overall it's pretty good.
Movies like "Friends With Money" that don't have an overall story have to work on the dialogue and acting. All four actresses selected by the director performed very well, but the performances of Catherine Keener and Frances McDormand were significantly better in comparison. Jennifer Aniston's progress is huge, which is a surprise. And Joan Cusack's role has little room to play and does not require too much acting. In addition, the actor who played the role of Frances McDormand's husband did a great job. I haven't seen him and don't know his name. I really liked this movie because in those dialogues and eyes, I was still touched. A lot of people said the movie was bad, and a lot of people said it was a good movie. Some people say that this is a very feminine women's film, made for women. I don't want to deny their views because everyone who watches the movie has their own unique opinions and ideas, and I, as a 19-year-old boy, really liked this movie.
I can still find resonance with Jennifer Aniston's character. I think my current state of life is like that. Sometimes I have to bow my head again and again to face reality and endure it again and again. A lot of things that once held on to things start to fade and eventually get forgotten. Maybe this is life? Some things cannot be changed. Those forbearances will actually happen again and again, and all we can do is bow our heads. Jennifer Aniston ended up with a rich man. I don't think she likes him. She compromised again. It doesn't matter if she has money or not. She won't be happy anyway. She's just unhappy without money and having money. In the unhappiness of money, she chose the latter. This is the reality, cruel and heart-wrenching. She stared at the ceiling in a daze, with a pair of confused eyes. This is the last shot of the movie. At the beginning of the movie and at the end of the movie, there are no big ups and downs, just the lives of a few women and men in a few days. I am glad that the director did not tell us the big truth that "the poor are happier than the rich," but let us see more. After the movie, I learned a lot. This is the charm of the movie.
The film is classified as a comedy, and there are several dark comedies in the film. But anyone who has seen it will know that, in fact, this film is about a group of unhappy people, and it seems that not much has changed until the end of the film. I was very depressed after watching it because it was so real. But I don't think the director made this movie because he didn't want us to face life with a negative attitude but told us that this is life, so what? We still have to live and work hard. Finally, Frances McDormand speaks in the film to end this article. "I felt like my life was waiting to die," she said. Later, her husband asked her, "Do you hate life?" She thought about it and said, "I don't hate life."
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