Margot at the Wedding

Margot at the Wedding (2007)

--Noah Baumbach

Whoo hoo, Andrea already reviewed this one so I don't have to do a plot summary. I, personally, didn't find that this film made me feel weird, I thought the characters and situations were more indicative of real life. It also makes me wonder what kind of horrible childhood Baumbach had to write all of these films about overbearing parents and how they are subtly screwing over their children. I loved how lame it was that Kidman's character just throws around diagnoses of disorders and everyone in this film seems to correspond to one or more. I think that, in particular, is real-life like. You could pretty much diagnose anyone with some kind of disorder if you just watched a film of their behavior, which doesn't really show the complete story about them, obviously, and which is part of the reason that I deeply distrust diagnoses such as those.

I too thought that the acting was good and I was impressed with Black in the first part of the film. His performance kind of seemed to fall apart at the end though, when he was crying, which just made me think of his lame comedy work. But, overall, he injects a lot of comedy into the film that for some reason seems believable so I thank him for that. I also liked Jennifer Jason Leigh. I totally liked her acting and her character (though I don't know why). She was just so cute, like a cuddly kitten. I just wanted to squeeze her and say "oooooohhhhhhh so cuuute!" I can't rely explain or justify that impulse though. Ohhhhhhhh and I just realized that she was the chick in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and that movie has a special place in my heart so maybe that's why? I don't know, she was just good, deal with it.

I also have to comment on the dude who played Claude. I really can't believe that he is a boy. I'm sorry, he just looks like such a pretty girl. And I totally thought he was one until they called him "handsome" (and I was like, wow, most people don't say that to little girls) and "Claude". Then I was like, whaa? Yeah, I think this film would have been better for me, if Claude were an unconventionally dressed girl. Hahaha. It was okay, I'm still doubting his boy-ness, I want him to be in other things so I can make sure.... That's really bad! I can't believe I just said that! I'm stopping now.