Director: Alexander Payne
Stars: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Release Date: 19 January 2012
Memorable quote:
Matt King: I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father - you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing.
Matt King: I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father - you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing.
What?
Matt King is happily married, has two beautiful girls, enough money to raise them and a nice house to grow old in. On top of all that he is the descendant of some rich princess, which makes him even more blessed. At least this is the picture a lot of people would see from the outside. The reality is quite different, his wife struggles with Death after a boating accident; he learns that she had an affair with some “duschbag”, his daughter is a drunk with a weird boyfriend and that everything he things he has actually falls down like a deck of cards. Try living in his shoes.
Matt King is happily married, has two beautiful girls, enough money to raise them and a nice house to grow old in. On top of all that he is the descendant of some rich princess, which makes him even more blessed. At least this is the picture a lot of people would see from the outside. The reality is quite different, his wife struggles with Death after a boating accident; he learns that she had an affair with some “duschbag”, his daughter is a drunk with a weird boyfriend and that everything he things he has actually falls down like a deck of cards. Try living in his shoes.
Yes?
This movie is special in its way, nothing exceptional happens throughout the whole movie, but the beauty here is the passive flow that the movie projects. Nothing happens, but everything happens. You sit there in the movie theater and you ask yourself, so what happened in the last 2 hours, and the only thing you can say for sure is that you couldn’t turn your head away from the silver screen. Not because some crazy car chase, explosion or thriller, but the harsh truth that life can slap you in the face every second of every minute of your life. We all pray that this won’t happen but the slight possibility that everything good that we have and know can vanish scares us, and this truth keeps our eyes on the screen. This is what is truly amazing, the lack of happening compared to the intensity of things being thrown in our faces.
This movie is special in its way, nothing exceptional happens throughout the whole movie, but the beauty here is the passive flow that the movie projects. Nothing happens, but everything happens. You sit there in the movie theater and you ask yourself, so what happened in the last 2 hours, and the only thing you can say for sure is that you couldn’t turn your head away from the silver screen. Not because some crazy car chase, explosion or thriller, but the harsh truth that life can slap you in the face every second of every minute of your life. We all pray that this won’t happen but the slight possibility that everything good that we have and know can vanish scares us, and this truth keeps our eyes on the screen. This is what is truly amazing, the lack of happening compared to the intensity of things being thrown in our faces.
Of course we also have the usual things that make a movie good, George Clooney performed as his life depended on it, I truly believed what I saw and this made this movie good.
The environment felt real, in the middle of everything that is beautiful, the beach, the sea, the hula girls you understand that there is a family that is just trying to survive the horror of life, just great to watch.
No?
The biggest weakness of this movie is also his strength. The lack of happening in the movie transforms this movie in to something that not everyone can watch. By being so good in his own genre it becomes boring for almost everyone outside of it, half of the people in the movie theater stood up at the end and said” what a waste of time, and the other half was still sitting and thinking of the amazement that this movie left them in.
The biggest weakness of this movie is also his strength. The lack of happening in the movie transforms this movie in to something that not everyone can watch. By being so good in his own genre it becomes boring for almost everyone outside of it, half of the people in the movie theater stood up at the end and said” what a waste of time, and the other half was still sitting and thinking of the amazement that this movie left them in.
Well…
I liked this movie, it puts things in perspective, and the sad part is that nowadays we need movies to show us that. You don’t need to watch it at the movies, sitting home is by far enough, don’t understand me wrong it is good, but not good enough to poor money on it. Because of all the above I grade this…
I liked this movie, it puts things in perspective, and the sad part is that nowadays we need movies to show us that. You don’t need to watch it at the movies, sitting home is by far enough, don’t understand me wrong it is good, but not good enough to poor money on it. Because of all the above I grade this…
Grade: 7.5 out of 10
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