Many people that I've met have called this a "GREAT MOVIE". I'm not quite sure why it gets that response because it's primarily about a very emotionally disturbed women who is headed to be one of those homeless people who live in squalor under the viaducts in many of our states.
The "Great " response (I guess) is probably because people feel that this once very wealthy women (who flaunted her wealth) gets what she deserves in life. I looked at her in a different way. How I could help her if she was my mental patient and I was her therapist.
At any rate, Woody Allen again creates VERY real people, in our real world. The acting is sensational and some of the characters are super. Especially, great are a not so wealthy group of characters who could have been lifted right out of GUYS AND DOLLS.
The female lead in this movie and Blanche DuBois in Streetcar Named Desire are very similar. In Streetcar, Blanche is a fading, though still attractive, Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her alcoholism and delusions of grandeur. Her poise is an illusion she presents to shield others (but most of all, herself) from her reality, and is an attempt to make herself still attractive to new male suitors.
Don't miss this movie and PLEASE SEND ME YOUR FEELING ABUT THIS FILM.
2 comments:
Loved the film and believe it's an acting tour de force for Blanchette who undoubtedly will get an Oscar Best Actress nomination. Supporting actors were terrific as well, especially Sally Hawkins and Bobby Carnavale. Sure, it's an updating of "Streetcar" sans the sexual tension between Blanch(ette) and Chili with a contemporary depiction of a licentious Madoff figure played to perfection by Alec Baldwin. Dialogue by Allen was ear perfect as well as the expert cross cutting between present day San Francisco and the New York recent past. Woody continues to make wonderful films without him in it.
Martin
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