Dilapidated house, a group of dirty cats. Mother and daughter comfort each other, and the floor is full of newspapers, clothes and garbage.
The Grey Garden was once prosperous, and the old Edie was happy to sing, open parties, and have fun. Daughter Edie has been holding on to her dream of being an actor all day, and she wants to live a prosperous life in New York by sharpening her head. But because of her incestuous relationship with a married man, she was sent back to the gray garden. She wanted to be born again several times, but after finally being abandoned by the man, she settled in this gray area where she saw the sea.
In order to take care of her mother, Edie has been unable to realize her dream in her life. The falling hair made her longing for love and family also become a bubble.
The film is adapted from the 1975 documentary "Grey Garden". Although it focused on rendering the singing and dancing of the Grey Garden at the beginning, it has a strong sense of restraint and first promotion, which makes people feel sad. It's hard to stay the line between the past and present. It's realy hard. When two people meet two people who want to make a documentary about it, they seem to rekindle the artistic fire of many years ago, although they are already down and out.
It is worth mentioning that the mother and daughter with perverse temperament and behavior are distant relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy. The health department made headlines at the time by threatening to demolish the building when the Grey Gardens were flooded with litter. Jacqueline has appeared to try to save her family's reputation, repairing the apartment on the verge of collapse.
I would like to introduce the first lady of the United States, Jacqueline, a member of the famous Kennedy family in the United States. She is a woman of style, full of intelligence and creativity. She didn't like the name "First Lady", thinking it was like a name for a horse. She sat next to Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Jacqueline believed that the Kennedy family had become the target of assassination. In order to protect her children, she decided to leave the United States. She married the Greek ship king Aristotle Onassis on October 20, 1968. Onassis had enough money And forces can protect her.
The film is suffocating and desperate. They seem to make an unwise choice, but they seem to have no other choice. But they do not have the anxiety of identity, as Alain De Botton pointed out, the fear of the status gap, but stubbornly be themselves, even paranoid to the point of being unreasonable.
The world had better glories for them, they could sell the gray garden and enjoy their old age in Florida. But we have to admit that this world only allows us to choose between loneliness and despicability, and perhaps the one that is worth sticking to is our own home.
Edie kept blaming her mother for being mean to the photographer, but finally said emotionally: She's an interesting person, and I don't want her to die. And really when she was free, she sold the Grey Garden, provided it couldn't be damaged. She finally had a chance to perform in a nightclub. She broke through the mud and said deeply: My mother give me a priceless life.
Hate! I should have scolded the mother of her own daughter who entertained herself but kept her shy, rebuked the daughter who wanted to break out of the cocoon but was afraid to retreat. I hated that messy apartment, a kind of sticky filth. However, when old Edie asked her daughter to take out the diamond necklace she had kept for many years, I was in tears. She refused to sell the grey garden to give her daughter freedom, but she still insisted on hiding the dowry: it was already yours, and I had no right to deal with it. No matter how mean and powerful a mother is, she has a soft world in her heart, and only her children are allowed to enter.
I haven't seen the documentary, but this new film is nothing more than two people's memories of the Mood for Love. Movies are magical substances, and when the media kept asking old Edie what she thought, she just said: It's all in the movie.
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