A present for women in despair

Adalberto 2022-04-19 09:02:48

It was as close to perfect as any movie that I have watched recently. Some people would like to describe it as a love story, but I suppose a movie of female subjects should be more appropriate. It's different from traditional romantic comedy: more independent and more realistic. We can easily find the current problems faced by women, such as pressure from work, marriage, changes, confusion and loneliness. In Broken English, there is no complicated plot nor super star but it is full of natural and delicate emotion.


Nora's beauty is not absolute, but her feminine temperament is attractive. Nora got a Liberal Arts Degree, however she had been working in a hotel for six years. Work is not a problem for her, solving the problems is a clear principle for her. Love is important, but dispeling the confusion in her heart is equally important. Most women who under the pressure nowadays feel this way too; once they can not find a solution they get confused or even desperate.

Nora was a romantic person and pursued perfect perception. But now she has turned out to be a little puppet who is out of control and lost her sense of proportion. She trusts men easily, then becomes more irritable and suspicious of love. Nora gets into a quandary about her life; she suddenly realizes that she is getting older and becoming the only single person in her circle of friends. Simple loneliness is a feeling, but deep longliness is poison. Long-term accumulation of loneliness makes Nora desperate. She is despairing of love; she is even despairing of herself. That is why she refused Julien's kiss in the first place, but she can not prevent love from the depths of her heart. When Julien go back to France, Nora almost breaks down. She completely loses confidence and balance. All the low-key feelings jump off the screen.So she goes to France to find Julien. Perhaps Julien is only an excuse, and what Nora really wants to find is a new life or a new start.

Finally she finds her dim love on the subway which is a profoundly unreal scene in this movie, although it will hardly come true in real life, but it is beautiful. This romantic ending is not prepared for Nora, it is prepared for all the people who live in despair. It gives the inspiration and appeasement to women who are living in big cities facing similar problems. Broken English combined a realistic style with the fantasy in people's mind. The female director of Broken English, Zoe Cassavetes, uses an exquisite perspective to express the loneliness and anxiety that exists in women's lives. The movie includes a kind of comedy and romance, but the humor or laughter here is real. This reproduction of Nora in real life just meets my soul.


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Broken English quotes

  • Nora Wilder: I think I must be doing something horribly wrong, but I don't know what it is.

  • Nora Wilder: I'm just trying to figure out if this is supposed to mean something.