Post by kim on Jul 23, 2006 12:32:35 GMT -5
Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio
Based on a true story. Set in the 50's, a time period where options for women were limited. Set within that backdrop, a mother of twelve children and husband to a man stuck within his failures. He spends all his earnings on alcohol, is a man she cannot depend on at all. She doesn't fight her situation by rebelling against it or destroying herself, but by embracing it. This is the unique spin to this film. She gets her family through poverty by entering contests, using her writing ability to create jingos and limericks that advertise products, the image of the dutiful housewife holding a bottle of Mr. Clean with sparkles around her face. The movie was kind of disturbing, seeing how boxed her life was, how limited she was by everything, how the only bits of her personality (her writing ability) came out in cliches and making up jingos that only reinforced the plasticness of life that didn't reflect the hardness of her own life. Yet, the amazing thing was that she CHOSE to embrace it and live every moment for her children, to enjoy every bit she could. It's hard to explain. By embracing the box, the rigidity, she fought it, and she taught her children to be themselves, raised each child to live life to the fullest and do everything they wanted to do.
Tell me what you guys think of it. I'm not so good at reviewing movies.
Based on a true story. Set in the 50's, a time period where options for women were limited. Set within that backdrop, a mother of twelve children and husband to a man stuck within his failures. He spends all his earnings on alcohol, is a man she cannot depend on at all. She doesn't fight her situation by rebelling against it or destroying herself, but by embracing it. This is the unique spin to this film. She gets her family through poverty by entering contests, using her writing ability to create jingos and limericks that advertise products, the image of the dutiful housewife holding a bottle of Mr. Clean with sparkles around her face. The movie was kind of disturbing, seeing how boxed her life was, how limited she was by everything, how the only bits of her personality (her writing ability) came out in cliches and making up jingos that only reinforced the plasticness of life that didn't reflect the hardness of her own life. Yet, the amazing thing was that she CHOSE to embrace it and live every moment for her children, to enjoy every bit she could. It's hard to explain. By embracing the box, the rigidity, she fought it, and she taught her children to be themselves, raised each child to live life to the fullest and do everything they wanted to do.
Tell me what you guys think of it. I'm not so good at reviewing movies.