Written after watching Rachel's Wedding

Arne 2022-03-26 09:01:08

The recent leisure viewing of movies, like the daily life of constant accidents, is quite frustrating. In the face of noble divinity such as "Happy Lazzaro", and extremely personal sociality such as "Cut the Belly", I can't mention how much it touches, and I can't help but doubt my aesthetic numbness and retrogression. It wasn't until it was night, the final meeting with Rachel's Wedding that I put it off.

Anne Hathaway was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her role as her sister Kym, although judging from the title (Rachel Getting Married) and the plot, Kym in the world of the play is just the thorny supporting role in the lives of the people around her. ——I don't even have the ability and freedom to control my life to the right track that I have never seen. Under the ecstatic illusion of sister Rachel's marriage with her son, the basic structural unit of social attributes - family, its internal carbuncle, which is delicately concealed, was poked into blood by Kym's repeated attempts to reconcile with life, but was constantly misunderstood by others. Her sister's undisguised jealousy, her father's pains to suppress, and her mother's anger that could not be relieved after she escaped for many times, are all extensions of Kym's unforgivable mistakes in the past - and from another paradoxical dimension, this misfortune and unhappiness , but also the foundation for this family collective to spontaneously reconnect and repair. Just like Kym's casual lies in the drug rehab center saved another addict's life, society needs illusions to create and bridge, and family or family relationships are naturally the most natural and the most perfect illusions in the social structure that need no deconstruction. In the end, it was difficult for Kym, her sister, and her mother to talk about reconciliation in the fundamental sense, but what brought their bodies and minds back together was nothing more than the irresistible real power of family illusions.

"Rachel's Wedding" is not like the typical Hollywood family ethics films such as "Mother and Daughter Love", "Mrs. Kramer" and so on. On the contrary, it depicts the brokenness and powerlessness of the individual family with the surface healing and consummation all the time. Compared with the generally recognized good taste in music, director Jonathan Demme has always had a more obvious favor and understanding of the heretical human nature of the strange force. Except for Kym, who is in Tumi, the rest of the family, the best man at the wedding, and even passers-by who are far from being familiar with each other can hardly be called sound in terms of their personalities. After ignoring the magnifying filter, we will be surprised to find that it is a certain side of ourselves, and one day, it is our own abnormality that drives the difficult life of intellectually unable to move forward. The Kym family, as well as those "idiots" or "paranoiacs" in other films such as Wang Cailing and Zhang Zili, are all using extreme theatrical reality to transcend the unwillingness in my ordinary life, Impatience, disobedience and reluctance, and in the distance where it is not difficult to see the end, there will eventually be absolute tranquility, waiting and absorbing the madness and tossing of this life.

Such a shortlisted film of the Austrian series when I began to pay full attention to the awards season, and being able to finally meet myself in a moment of panic may be a gift and praise that has been accumulated for a long time. For the audience, every film has its most suitable moment to combine with you; for those who have experienced life, every encounter, every mundane, every other also has the most suitable opportunity to integrate into it. , If the urgency of asking is replaced by a wait-and-see attitude, everything will be much more transparent.

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Rachel Getting Married quotes

  • Susanna Galeano: I was wondering, have you ever thought about public relations?

    Kym: The public's kind of afraid of me.

  • Kym: All of you people living in this little world of judgment and paranoia and mistrust. I can feel it all the time. It's like... At the slightest sign of ingratitude or absence of atonement, it's like the fucking Salem witch trials around here.