American Beauty Reaction
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I don't think you ladies recognized her but Carolyn is played by the same actress(Annette Bening) who played Mar-vell and The Supreme Intelligence(appearing to her as Mar-vell) in Captain Marvel. She actually grew up just a few blocks from were my mother grew up. I take a walk around a lake every once in a while near where she went to high school here in San Diego. It's funny, although a few characters are good, a lot of the acting in this movie isn't as good as I remembered it, mostly from the younger cast. Bening, Spacey, and Cooper are pretty good. I like this movie, but I think I disagree with it's idea of beauty. What they call beauty I see as people being horrid to each other and selfish, except for Lester covering Angela up at the end. Everyone is constantly not putting themselves in the other's shoes and being unwilling to imagine the conversation from their perspective. Lester not valuing his family in the beginning, thinking he has nothing to lose feels the most selfish, at least to me at that point in the movie. Carolyn insists she is the victim, yet she's the one who's cheating on her husband while he's with no one. It honestly feels like similar scenarios presented in this film are reported and heard about more and more in recent years here in the US and it just depresses me. I don't find life easy, I never have, but even though I'm socially out of practice and have been for a while I do find life easy to be kind to people, although that was easier with neighbors before our current political climate. Just feels like most characters are going out of their way to be selfish in this film, even Jane in regards to not trying to understand her father's behavior, no empathy for it, although in her defense she is young, so she hasn't yet acquired the wisdom to understand that we're all still basically teenagers who wants to psychologically "run away to New York". One other thing. I found it interesting how we completely don't see Jane's reaction to her father's death. We see her reaction to the blood, but not his body or the identify of the body belonging to that blood. I imagine they may have found it difficult to create a reaction to it for her which didn't feel corny. I've noticed that in film screenwriting a lot, if they can't come up with a good idea for how a character reacts to something who has complicated feelings about a situation/character, they simply don't show it and leave it up to our imaginations. It cuts away from her when Ricky bends down to take a look at his face, and other than the flashback reaction to hearing the gunshot and Lester's memories of her, we never see Jane again.
YodatheHobbit
2025-10-22 09:27:14 +0000 UTCCan you guys react to Warfare
bailey
2025-09-10 19:01:16 +0000 UTC
