A widow (Meryl Streep) investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners (Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas) exploiting the world’s financial system.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, David Schwimmer, Robert Patrick, Cristela Alonzo, James Cromwell, Melissa Rauch, Alex Pettyfer, Will Forte, Matthias Schoenaerts, Chris Parnell, Larry Wilmore
Satirical reality. This film depicts how the government focus on things they could benefit from. The priorities or we should say “the people” were the ones who were at risk. It is that, when someone speak, we should listen. I love how this film ends, everyone ended up dying lmao because of selfishness. However, this film talks about a lot of issues: family, entertainment industry, relationships, disaster, government plans, people rioting, sciences and maths, end of the world etc.
So on a scale of ‘zero’ to ‘all the moms in the movie theatre after pierce brosnan’s “piercing blue eyes” quip in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’, how funny would you say this-
I loved Greta Gerwig’s version of Little Women, I literally saw it twice back to back in the cinema. There are many reasons why it is a great movie (the structural approach that Greta takes and its fluidity, the fusion of Jo and Louisa herself, the realness of each character), and these reasons have been explained endlessly already, but I was really fascinated by Greta saying in many interviews that to her it’s about being a woman and making art and reconciling that with the need for money and independence. And to me that right there is why Little Women is a great movie: it speaks to everyone on a personal level. To her that is the main theme, and I imagine it’s because it’s relevant to her and to her career and what she is going through right now. I see those themes and I understand them, but to me that is not what the movie is mostly about. To me, it is about growing up, and being in that period of your life when the dreams and hopes you had as a child should start becoming realities, and whether they do or they don’t. It’s about reconciling the person you thought you would become and the person you actually became, and intertwining 1861 and 1868 enhances the vividness of the comparison. It’s about relationships changing, and grieving not only for the relationship itself or for the other person, but for the person you once were when you were with them. It’s about self-doubt, and not knowing whether what you feel you need to contribute to the world is actually valuable, and it’s about making your own way in the world but also wanting to be loved. To me, it’s about all of those things, because this is how I feel right now in my own life. To someone else, who is going through other experiences, it might be about something different. And that’s why this is a movie I can’t wait to watch again as I get older.
