![]() ![]() Cassie spends some of the film pretending to be drunk prey for horny scumbags, and then blows their minds when she suddenly becomes sober and coherent, hoping that it makes these guys second-guess the next time they try taking advantage of a woman. ![]() Here, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) goes from being a promising, young medical student to a revenge-obsessed dropout after her best friend, Nina, is raped and commits suicide when the people involved face zero repercussions. But Promising Young Woman found a way to give this tired genre a unique spin. Revenge stories aren't anything new in Hollywood. Brendan Fraser's heart-breaking performance earned him a well-deserved Oscar for Best Actor, granting him the Hollywood comeback that fans had been rooting for. People are often disgusted by Charlie's appearance, even though he's a sweet, good-hearted guy (despite questionable decisions he made in the past). In addition to family dynamics, The Whale touches on society's need for instant gratification, the negatives of co-dependence, the importance of being authentic, and the superficial judgments of society. It also largely takes place in one room, thanks to the 2012 play that the movie's based on. The sad reality of Hollywood is that most films don't feature an overweight main character, which makes The Whale a unique production. The disturbing scene where he punishes himself with food, overeating until he vomits, is reminiscent of watching a character overdose on drugs or harm themselves with a knife. Its main character, Charlie (Brendan Fraser), is dangerously obese and shows a lifestyle that's unfamiliar to most people. But on the outside, Darren Aronofsky's film looks different from anything we've seen before. As America contends with its divided identity, ‘Nomadland’ both captures the zeitgeist and embraces the fantasy of leaving it all behind for life on the road.At its core, The Whale is a movie that's been done a hundred times: it's a drama that captures a certain point of an individual's life and dissects familial problems. ![]() Zhao embraces the paradox at the center of a story that both celebrates its character’s liberation and bemoans that sad state of affairs that put her on that track. IndieWire’s chief critic Eric Kohn named “Nomadland” the fourth best movie of 2020, writing, “The film develops an entrancing narrative about American alienation and the appeal of escaping society’s oppressive clutches. The safety of fiction filmmaking, in my opinion, actually pulls out a level of honesty and authenticity that I think would be impossible if this was a documentary purporting to truth.” Chloé really allows people to choose how they want to represent themselves. “You could see her listening to these individuals telling their stories, and then collaborating with them to fold their own narratives into the script. “You could watch her script adapt to the personalities and stories that came from those conversations,” Zhao’s directing assistant Hannah Peterson told IndieWire about the “Nomadland” creative process. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in Talks to Lead Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ Zhao wrote the film’s script using Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” as a guide, but she also made sure to fold in the real life stories of the nomads themselves. While the film also stars “Good Night, and Good Luck” Oscar nominee David Strathairn in a key supporting role, the majority of “Nomadland” finds McDormand acting opposite real modern-day nomads, including Linda May, Charlene Swankie, and Bob Wells. McDormand stars as Fern, a woman in her sixties who rebounds from losing everything in the Great Recession by journeying through the American West as a van-dwelling nomad. Starring two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand, the acclaimed drama won the Golden Lion at Venice and the People’s Choice Award at TIFF. I have to be excited by little things I discover along the way.” Zhao’s approach is just one reason the upcoming “ Nomadland” ranks among the best films of 2020. Someone once said to me that passion doesn’t sustain, but curiosity does. “I have to be in love with my subject matter and want to learn more about it. “I’m not the kind of filmmaker who just makes films,” Chloé Zhao told IndieWire earlier this year. ![]()
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