In a 90-minute love comedy, the director paid attention to the emotional impact (loneliness, feeling of emptiness) of parents after their children grew up and left home, and explored the love of people in their second mate selection (no love at first sight if there is no mountain alliance and each other). Weight and meaning show how we are easily influenced by the opinions of others and have different views on the same people and things. It depicts the phenomenon of a mother inadvertently raising other people's children as her own. The theme is in place, and the style is "light" and fast, but the shortcoming is the lack of "joy". Like the protagonist being exposed as the climax of the whole film, it can be more dramatic. In this regard, another female director and screenwriter, Nancy Meyers, did a better job in "It's Complicated" a few years ago. However, in the end, these two films both planted the seeds of hope for the heroine's love, at least allowing the audience to walk out of the theater with a knowing smile.
Nicole Holofcener, who was immersed in the Woody Allen set when he was a child, has already formed his own style. In particular, her female-specific perspective and perception are highly praised by film critics, and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is often above 80%. This film is her fifth film, all self-written and directed, and all collaborated with Catherine Keener. However, Keener did not have many roles this time (although it was as good as always), and the protagonist is the two major television stars-Julia Louis-Dreyfus in "Seinfeld" ("Seinfeld") and "The Sopranos" ("The Sopranos"). ) In James Gandolfini. So we saw the 50-year-old superficial, irritable and neurotic Elaine Benes and the manic and depressed Tony Soprano, who was a father and gang boss, had a love affair cautiously like a high school student. This sounds very unreliable, but thanks to the real and delicate interpretation of the two leading actors, the feeling of watching the movie is much more harmonious. In the end, Louis-Dreyfus won his first major film award nomination-the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical Comedy), and Gandolfini won the Screen Actors Guild Award and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Male Nominated for supporting roles. But all of this was overshadowed by Gandolfini's sudden death. Gandolfini died in the bathroom due to a heart attack while on vacation in Rome in June 2013; the heroine in the film also joked about his body shape, which seemed very outdated in hindsight. The film was released 3 months later, and that day was originally his birthday. The subtitles at the end of the film dedicated this penultimate work to him. His hometown, New Jersey, paid half-mast to the three-time Emmy winner and named a main road after him.
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