When drinking tea in a teahouse in Sichuan, the proprietress who met by chance told me about her divorce, children and the problems she faced, not because of how friendly I am, but because I was a stranger. conversation. To this day, I still remember her faint sentence: "Many marriages just look good." It is perfect for commenting on the couples in "The Good Wife".
The story is very compact. It revolves around an event where her husband won the Nobel Prize for Literature and went to Sweden to accept the award. The couple met and fell in love when they were young. They don't just look good, they're a huge lie.
What attracts people is not the truth behind the lie, but the love-hate relationship of this elderly couple. Human nature is so contradictory. One moment, he is furious for the infidelity of his husband that he has accumulated over the years. Life and tears are joyful together, and the past suspicions are relieved in the embrace. No matter how sincere the resentment, boredom, conflict, grievance, and anger between husband and wife are, how strong is their attachment to each other, their habits, and the love engraved in the long river of the family. The truth that cannot be disclosed to the world is the whip, humiliation and pressure that are whipped in the soul from time to time. Contradictions and reconciliations are played out by the old actors in a very real and believable way.
Glenn Close is so wonderful this time. He has made a choice from himself, brainwashed by female inferiority, love and dependence on her husband as low as dust, and at the same time has the talent of turning stone into gold. When love has become a habit, he has accumulated resentments for many years. The anger broke out, struggled between lies and truth, and in the end still loved that bastard husband's wife. The acting is plump and credible, the layers are peeling off like onions, the characters are vivid and complex, and she is definitely a strong contender for the Oscar for best actress, applause !
The film mocks this male society with Nobel, mocks the beauty that people are willing to believe in with a flight attendant, and mocks the power of lies again with the biographer who is going to die in "Interview with the Vampire".
This year's Oscars are out of tune, and this film, which was only nominated for best actress, is also a pleasant surprise. I like it.
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