I liked the movie, I liked that it kept me interested and I liked the takeway - something that in today's movies seems to miss and gets neglected.
The takeaway is that people who don't play by the book are eventually punished and put at their place by God, Karma or whatever you believe in. In fact, this is, first of all, an educational movie, a product of its time and its dogmatic beliefs.
That shouldn't scare you, since today's movies are just the same and have the same brainwashing influence on the audience, trying to impose ideas and attitudes that I won't explain here, because their too obvious, really.
About Jenny Hager now. The character integrity itself shouldn't bother you for a number of good reasons: 1. Being a movie that wants your attention and aims to avoid being boring, the character has to be unusual and unpredictable with lots of twists that make it worth watching and keep you curious. 2. Being an educational movie, these twists will bring about a powerful takeway which is more important for its time's audience and contemporary critics than things like plausibility and character individuality.
Jenny seems to be a narcissistic woman, challenged by her inability to understand happiness and a normal family life. In fact, she's pretty plausible as a character, even though her upbringing is unusual for a narcissist, since they tend to come from money. But she has her beauty instead, which reasonably exposed her to narcissism. I can see why she wanted to donate for the church, in front of everybody else and I can see why she wants the most powerful man she knows to be her husband. Everything makes sense. Also, it's plausible that she wants children, to secure her position and relationship, her public image of success and perfection. Also, I recognize the narcissistic anger of getting the 2nd place in a vulnerable moment. In fact, now that I think about, she's more plausible that I initially thought.
The movie is a blend of time's cultural influences: including psychoanalytic theory, becoming dominant in the fancier parts of society, and of course, religion, still influent and dominant in the lower class.
I'm giving it 9/10 because, at times, Jenny does look too powerful and manipulative to hide so much vulnerability. But, as I previously said, she exists as a character to make a point, not to be realistic and plausible.
The takeaway is that people who don't play by the book are eventually punished and put at their place by God, Karma or whatever you believe in. In fact, this is, first of all, an educational movie, a product of its time and its dogmatic beliefs.
That shouldn't scare you, since today's movies are just the same and have the same brainwashing influence on the audience, trying to impose ideas and attitudes that I won't explain here, because their too obvious, really.
About Jenny Hager now. The character integrity itself shouldn't bother you for a number of good reasons: 1. Being a movie that wants your attention and aims to avoid being boring, the character has to be unusual and unpredictable with lots of twists that make it worth watching and keep you curious. 2. Being an educational movie, these twists will bring about a powerful takeway which is more important for its time's audience and contemporary critics than things like plausibility and character individuality.
Jenny seems to be a narcissistic woman, challenged by her inability to understand happiness and a normal family life. In fact, she's pretty plausible as a character, even though her upbringing is unusual for a narcissist, since they tend to come from money. But she has her beauty instead, which reasonably exposed her to narcissism. I can see why she wanted to donate for the church, in front of everybody else and I can see why she wants the most powerful man she knows to be her husband. Everything makes sense. Also, it's plausible that she wants children, to secure her position and relationship, her public image of success and perfection. Also, I recognize the narcissistic anger of getting the 2nd place in a vulnerable moment. In fact, now that I think about, she's more plausible that I initially thought.
The movie is a blend of time's cultural influences: including psychoanalytic theory, becoming dominant in the fancier parts of society, and of course, religion, still influent and dominant in the lower class.
I'm giving it 9/10 because, at times, Jenny does look too powerful and manipulative to hide so much vulnerability. But, as I previously said, she exists as a character to make a point, not to be realistic and plausible.
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