How many people dare to calmly face their loneliness, lack of money and leisure?
How many people are good at getting along with themselves, with cats, and writing to express their cynicism.
This is how the unknown New York writer Lee Israel lived a bleak and short life. The 48-year-old comedian Melissa McCarthy plays the little-known 51-year-old middle-aged female writer Lee Israel, and the characters are presented in a relaxed manner; Lee's spiritual world constructed by director Marielle Heller is full and full, making people love her and like her. Foreign media said that Lee's bad temper and roughness are not just psychological cover up, but symptoms of existential anxiety.
Being fat, dressing casually, and not cleaning the house is a mess, but not annoying. The reason lies in her extravagant witty conversation and outspoken, consistent personality. This is a rarity in this era of careful, careful management of one's own identity label everywhere. The agent's words are unpleasant: "Either you have a better personality, attend more press conferences, drink less alcohol, dress well, or change careers" - this is the way the circle of writers works with eloquent words, and it has to be acquiesced. Agreed, but also indignant. Lee is too frank. He wanted to live a comfortable life, but at the same time he had no choice but to lose his job. He lost the chance to become famous year after year. He ended up running out of money, unable to pay the rent, and looked down on his cat to catch a cold? She is aggressive and human-loathing, cat-loving and thoughtful, and she has a lonely soul beneath a hard exterior.
Feng shui turns, once Lee's game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen biography was also on the New York Times list, but now the book about Estee Lauder has been written by himself, and his writing career has fallen into a low ebb, and the book has been hit by 75% off. If you do not innovate or start, you will have to be eliminated by the times, which is fate and lack of personality charm. (Actually, I think it is the disadvantage of the writer's profession. The threshold is too low, the manuscript fee is too low, and when there are fewer STEM students, I worry about money.)
Capturing the sharp, witty and poignant nature of the literati's linguistic personalities, Lee Israel used his talent to prove his worth time and time again by composing the letters of the famous Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. A tribute to literature, sought after by collectors (the narration of the movie is also super deep). And if it is because of her signing, it will only be the embarrassment that no one cares about, and it also shows that the road to fame is difficult. Fortunately, the fabricated letter was only sentenced to five years of labor after being wanted by the FBI.
Her biography of loneliness is true and desolate: the company of Jack Hock (Richard E. Grant), who is also friendless, both self-reliant and proud. The two of them drank heavily, talked about the mountains, flirted with the bookstore owner who belittled Lee... It made the spicy life a little more fortunate. The real Lee Israel may be even more lonely, and the film magnifies her and Jack's mutual company in times of trouble into a bittersweet sitcom.
The film is artistic and sad. If the director had a different approach, Lee Israel could also be portrayed as an abhorrent, unscrupulous person: she's better known for making up fiction than writing books in her life, earning $400 in just a few hours, and Lee was even more of a jerk when the truth-triggering method emerged. It's fake letters from the collection.
The failure of these little people is different from the exquisiteness of famous people. Their fragility makes us feel distressed, and they give us kindness and relief in the face of failure. The success of the film is the success of the re-creation of the characters, allowing the audience to understand her portrayed in the film through interpretation. (Another favorite biographical film of literati in 2018 is "Colette") The vivid interpretation of the two leading actors makes this lonely film, Jazz soundtrack (Madeira, Steeple Chase, I Thought of You Last Night, Snowy Day) and The tone of the film complements each other, and it is depressing and melancholy.
The film is based on real events. Lee Israel (1939-2004) died at the age of 75, unmarried and childless. Friend Jack Hock passed away in 1994, under the care of his fan club.
can you forgive me? Forgive my loneliness, my anger, my inability to love, and my life in obscurity.
I hope we all have an ordinary life and a good life. I think this is the best blessing.
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