Having been following Francis McDormand's career since I can remember, I was looking forward to this film. Especially when I read that she also produced this. Alas, COVID-19 pandemic meant I had to wait for Disney + to release it in my country... (the incredulity of this very fact is spectacular!)
Well, this film has been such a disappointment for me. McDormand's underplayed yet poignant performance aside, this film seems to miss fire on all levels and accounts. It had such a potential for self-reflection and self-evaluation, yet it did not deliver for me.
I feel that this is due to the economic elite, (see Hollywood's multi-billion dollar entertainment industry), attempting to be self-reflective on the American society and on those who have nothing...
This has been plagued with emotional and sociopolitical tripes of gigantic proportions; vis-a-vis, cliché after cliché; stereotype after stereotype, the film attempts to inculcate to the viewer the vastness and depths of the characterisation on screen. Yet it fails to deliver for me.
Perhaps the film's themes and leitmotifs cannot transpose onto an international market; especially as the world still tries to get its head around the catastrophic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic; perhaps this endeavour is aimed at a US-specific audience / market only.
Well, this film has been such a disappointment for me. McDormand's underplayed yet poignant performance aside, this film seems to miss fire on all levels and accounts. It had such a potential for self-reflection and self-evaluation, yet it did not deliver for me.
I feel that this is due to the economic elite, (see Hollywood's multi-billion dollar entertainment industry), attempting to be self-reflective on the American society and on those who have nothing...
This has been plagued with emotional and sociopolitical tripes of gigantic proportions; vis-a-vis, cliché after cliché; stereotype after stereotype, the film attempts to inculcate to the viewer the vastness and depths of the characterisation on screen. Yet it fails to deliver for me.
Perhaps the film's themes and leitmotifs cannot transpose onto an international market; especially as the world still tries to get its head around the catastrophic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic; perhaps this endeavour is aimed at a US-specific audience / market only.