Extended Reading
  • Kennedi 2022-04-19 09:01:51

    A film where the acting skills of a big cousin hold up the whole movie

    A film in which the big cousin's acting skills hold up the entire film.
    Except for the soap opera dream, the TV commercial and the ending of walking out of the hotel, the three clips are quite amazing. The whole article is sleepy and irritable and depressing. Except for the title of "Joy", I can't...

  • Jordy 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    I'd expected more joy from this movie

    The first part is like the line of happiness behind the dark clouds, shaping the image of each character, embellished with an inexplicable sense of joy (but not funny). With the emergence of a career crisis, the narrative will be more exciting in the latter part. The plot reversal of the final...

  • Kirsten 2022-03-29 09:01:02

    In the first half, it was very enjoyable to watch the acting skills of the big cousin and the screen, but in the later plots, the various ups and downs of the drama plummeted... Maybe life is actually more exciting than the movie? The ending can actually be a satire that shreds the American dream, but who called it the main theme?

  • Grant 2022-04-22 07:01:21

    The first half hour is a story of a failed marriage versus a repressed family. The last hour and a half is a story of women's struggle and the right to speak. The battle for the right to speak occurs not only with business opponents, but also with family fathers and sisters. The support of my ex-husband and best friend is touching. On the contrary, due to the suppression and devaluation from family and career, Joy was really tenacious and crawled out of the quagmire with all his strength.

Joy quotes

  • [first lines]

    Clarinda: [TV soap opera scene] It doesn't make sense, I don't understand how something like this happened. I don't know what I'm going to do. This has been my whole life, and now it's gone I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Pendleton Industries is all I've ever known, and now it's all been taken away.

    Danica: When someone sees a weakness in me, I turn that weakness into a strength.

    [holds up a gun]

    Clarinda: Danica, you're so strong. I don't think I can do anything like this.

    Danica: You can imagine changing your life by fighting for the deed to the land, Clarinda. Which is possible only if Bartholomew is no longer living.

    Bartholomew: [entering] You will never get the deed to the land again, I will never allow it. Put down that gun, you silly girl.

    Danica: Watch your step, Bartholomew, Ridge is on the way, and he's still in love with Clarinda. And Jared loves

    Roderick: [entering] Clarinda, it's true. I'm here for you.

    [dramatic beat]

    Mimi: [narrating over snowy landscape] This is the story of Joy, as told by me, her grandmother. Everybody starts with a some kind of dream of what life will be. Joy dreams started at this metal garage her father ran. My granddaughter had a best friend, Jackie... a half-sister, Peggy... a dog... a father... a mother... who is my daughter... a grandmother, that's me. She made many beautiful things in her world, magic. Some people love to make things. They have the patience and the focus to figure it out with their hands. Joy was one of those people who rejoiced in making things.

    Young Joy: [in her room with her friend] And *I* open the door to the big green meadow. And *I* go into the forest. And there I conquered many dangers: A wolf and other scary things. And I started to build my very own house, where I would live and make wonderful creations for all the world, to see and have. And maybe for the Prince and Princess who lived across the forest in a castle. See? And they were in love. And maybe they'd invite me over because of the things that I made.

    Young Jackie: You need a handsome prince, that's what you need: a prince.

    Young Joy: No, I don't need a prince, this is a special power, I don't need a prince.

  • Sharon: [at the front door] He's damaged, he has no place else to go. He's been livin' in my house for two years.

    Joy: Oh, Dad, I'm so sorry.

    Rudy: Yeah...

    Joy: But, ya know, Tony's livin' in the basement.

    Rudy: Your ex-husband shouldn't be livin' in your basement, that's not the proper way to be divorced.