Monday 10 March 2014

August: Osage County

Finally The film is released in India; still, too bad it took that long for it to get released here and that too only in one theater, with one show a day!

Anyways, when a Movie of Julia Roberts is released I have to see it no matter what!

It was really sad to see strength of people attending the movie were not much. Though, sincere fans like me couldn't have miss it.

The movie start with low phase and continue doing so. It is not much of action happening around but a chaos going all the way from start to end. The theme is of a Family reunion that takes place because of a sad event. These people who haven't seen each other for a long time, not aware of problems the others are facing, when come together and discuss the problems one and other realizes they all are quite in deep S*#%.

As the movie progress lots of dark secrets comes out. Some, in hilarious way- "Eat the Fish, Eat The Fish, Eat The Fish...", and "Oh... are we breaking the plates now?", woooow I loved it. I enjoyed Julia and Meryl's performance a lot. Violet (Meryl) who was desperately waiting for Barbara (Julia), as she believes her eldest daughter is the only one who understands her better than anybody else, and it is clear that they both are very much alike. Hence, when Violet lose control because of her addiction Brabara takes control and tangles (Literary) with Violet in doing so. But in the end, Violet, when left alone by the same Barbara and calls out after Barbara leaves, made me cry, which I tried to conceal as hard as possible.

But when taken Barbara's point of view, what else she should have done? Hadn't she had enough already- a teenage daughter truing to be drug addict. A husband having affair with younger girl. A sister having a boyfriend hitting on her (Barbara's)
daughter. A complex relation of her sister with their first cousin. Ahhh! I would have wanted to escape from it way before Barbara did.

This is the movie, that I won't recommend as a must watch. Specially to those who seeks just entertainment from movies. People who should watch this one are those who thinks their life is in deep S*#%... Watch this movie and you will realize how better your life is.
 
Should it be called a Family Movie, no, I doubt that. It should be called a movie of family trying not to be a Family.  And it seems completely fine when we learn the circumstances.

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