watched it almost three weeks ago

Lilla 2022-03-28 09:01:04

Acting was excellent, and I love Viola Davis. Didn't know until I did some post-movie googling that I found out it's based on an old TV show. I went in totally because of the director Steve McQueen and Davis.

Race as an issue was ever present but wasn't voiced until the latter half of the movie, especially with McQueen's choice to cast a black actress as the main character. I remember from some interview that McQueen deliberately chose a love scene as the beginning, one with an interracial couple no less.

And I really feel for Davis' character, too, to find out that their marriage ultimately meant nothing to her white husband, whom she loved till the very end. I couldn't say I enjoyed the film per se, but I do think it's an excellent movie that's worth watching.

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Extended Reading
  • Joana 2021-12-19 08:01:21

    I found Uncle Liam, Colin Farrell, to punish uncle, and accompany a few women in a play that I don't know so-called. There are too many things, such as women's awakening, race, politics, power, class, guns, etc. What exactly they want to express, I guess the director himself can't tell. This is the drawback of being too ambitious, wanting everything, but not knowing everything. The rhythm is slow, even if there is interspersed flashbacks to reversals, it seems tasteless. As for acting skills, the stories are too boring to tell, what's the point of acting

  • Eliane 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    Nothing wrong with the director, I blame Gillian Flynn.

Widows quotes

  • Jack Mulligan: What I've learned from men like my father and your husband is that you reap what you sow.

    Veronica: Let's hope so.

  • Fuller: [on Harry] I always said he should burn in hell. But Chicago will do.