Post by Vits on Jul 3, 2019 20:27:22 GMT
GLORIA BELL is almost a word-for-word remake of GLORIA. You're probably thinking "Duh! Why would you expect something different when the writer/director is the same person?" Well, Sebastián Lelio claimed that it was going to be a reimagining. If he had been honest, I might been more forgiving, but this form of redundancy results in boredom. These are the only memorable differences:
1) The way the end credits are shown is disappointingly more standard.
2) There's no peacock, which is an improvement. Symbolism doesn't work if you halt the plot to bring a being/object out of nowhere that feels out of place, because then the viewer is too aware of it.
3) The title character's vagina isn't shown. Not that I need to see that. It's just weird to recreate almost all of the shots only to change that one meaningless detail.
Julianne Moore's performance is good, but she was miscast. The protagonist is supposed to be a divorced woman with grown-up children getting close to old age, for whom getting a boyfriend isn't impossible but also not "I snap my fingers and it'll come true" easy. She's afraid of being alone for the rest of her life and she feels that she doesn't have a lot of time left to find love again. All of this worked when she was played by Paulina García. She's by no means ugly, but also not what you'd call conventionally attractive. And you can tell how old she is. Moore is prettier and looks younger (despite being the same age), so I don't buy that she would have the same worries. At least not the point where she would want to hold on to her youth for as long as possible.
3/10
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1) The way the end credits are shown is disappointingly more standard.
2) There's no peacock, which is an improvement. Symbolism doesn't work if you halt the plot to bring a being/object out of nowhere that feels out of place, because then the viewer is too aware of it.
3) The title character's vagina isn't shown. Not that I need to see that. It's just weird to recreate almost all of the shots only to change that one meaningless detail.
Julianne Moore's performance is good, but she was miscast. The protagonist is supposed to be a divorced woman with grown-up children getting close to old age, for whom getting a boyfriend isn't impossible but also not "I snap my fingers and it'll come true" easy. She's afraid of being alone for the rest of her life and she feels that she doesn't have a lot of time left to find love again. All of this worked when she was played by Paulina García. She's by no means ugly, but also not what you'd call conventionally attractive. And you can tell how old she is. Moore is prettier and looks younger (despite being the same age), so I don't buy that she would have the same worries. At least not the point where she would want to hold on to her youth for as long as possible.
3/10
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You can read comments of other movies in my blog.