Home may be a harbor or hell. It can shelter and care for family members, but it may also be a prison that some people can’t avoid. Because of so many emotions and stories, most people’s favorite, most annoying and most painful things in this life are gathered here. The home in the American film "August: Osage County" is full of disturbing, bitter, tormenting, painful tastes, as shown in the film Osage County is in the local August climate the feelings brought about.
The film is adapted from the play "August: Osage County" of the same name written by Tracy Letts. Because of the success of the play version and the luxurious performance lineup of the film version, this film has no special effects and is not an American theme. The works are still very eye-catching despite the fact that last year's blockbuster was full of good films. The screenwriter of the film version is also Tracy Letts. Perhaps in order to meet the bearing degree of a film, Letts made necessary drastic cuts to make the structure meet the needs of a family ethics film, so that every main scene has The explosive force is relatively sufficient to escalate conflicts and entanglements, as if it will extend to the limit that human beings can bear, and it always exists within a certain range, which is consistent with the occurrence and development of family conflicts in reality. .
In the film, the Weston family and their relatives and friends, in 120 minutes, showed the audience years of contradictions, conflicting characters, conflicting ideas, opposing emotions, tangled past events and unspeakable heart knots. Everyone's life is riddled with holes, but they all try to maintain composure and decency. Once exposed in public mercilessly, the situation will develop to the point of no control. Shelley said: "Don't expose those who live It is the colorful veil that people use to describe life, even though it is all unreal." In the film after the funeral, the scene where relatives and friends sit around the dining table is precisely the unveiling of the colorful veil of life. The focus of the film is quite tense and full of gunpowder flavor.
Modern views generally believe that the mother determines whether a family is harmonious and happy, and establishes the tone of a family. It can be said that Meryl Streep gave the audience a "hologram" of her mother Violet's life with her superb acting skills and only a few days covered in the film. Let the audience have a detailed understanding of the situation of everyone in this family, and let the audience understand why this family has become what it is today. When the mother Violet took control of the audience and exposed everyone sharply and "viciously", the scars of this family were already there. Festered.
In life, there is always that kind of woman who looks shrewd but always does the stupid thing of "his relatives hurts enemies". Violet happens to be such a woman. Living with her is like being next to a powder keg that may explode at any time. Especially after she was diagnosed with oral cancer, her irritability couldn't be further increased. The once unfortunate growth period ruined her chances of having a perfect personality, and she lacked the ability to self-repair the day after tomorrow. After having children, she showed some characteristics that a parent should not have - extreme ego, strong personality. The desire to control, the weight of the family as a threat, has not yet taken responsibility for the incident, shirked the responsibility. For example, she blamed her daughter for the family tragedy, and her first reaction after learning that her husband would definitely not come back was that she could own all the things in the safe by herself. The first thing she thought of was this...
Meryl Streep should be regarded as a person who was born for drama. She is also a model of the unity of human and drama. Once she acts, she can give the essence of the character she plays. . And Sam Shepard, who plays Violet's husband Beverly, has a small number of roles, but it is very important. Shepard, with his relaxed and dejected performance, gave the foreshadowing of Beverly's inevitable end, which is quite effective. When he chooses When he left, the speculations of his relatives and friends about him afterward seemed insignificant. Julia Roberts, who played the eldest daughter Barbara, appeared weaker when she played opposite Aunt May. It seemed that Roberts only used anger to express the character's heart, which seemed to lack a sense of hierarchy.
Of course, Barbara's anger has a reason. The life she chose to escape from this home in a foreign country was unsatisfactory. When she was covering up her dilemma of divorce, she was already angry when her mother exposed her. The agonizing anger at the mother's resemblance is indescribable. Robert McCammon said, "Sometimes, when you look at the two people who brought you into this world, you see yourself very clearly in them. Everyone in the world is the product of a compromise of the laws of nature." Seeing this clearly is really shocking, especially when adult children have rationally voted against their parents' personalities. At the end of the film, the docile second sister Ivy, who has been by her parents' side, had enough of everything and decided to leave. Barbara ran around the yard chasing her sister's car. At that moment, her helplessness and panic were probably indescribable.
Watching this film, some people with life experience may be deeply touched and empathize with many of the lines, such as "Marriage is a difficult thing, even under good conditions", and then "I have a lot of love for family and sisterhood." No illusions anymore, we're just normal people, people who are accidentally genetically linked, just a random selection of cells." There are also words that show the commonality of human elders: "You have never encountered any difficulties, so you are asking for trouble."
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