Cindy can't stand that. He never signed off on the grow old along with me part. He doesn't think the best is yet to be. He thinks it's just fine now. Williams plays Cindy as a woman who has lost her pride of body and self. No, she doesn't become a drunk — he's the one who drinks too much.
But that's not the problem. It's his infuriating inability to care for this Cindy, right here, right now, because when she married him, she became exactly the Cindy he required. I wonder what kind of script conferences Cianfrance had with his co-writers, Joey Curtis and Cami Delavigne. They were writing about something ineffable, a void, a need.
This wasn't a story with convenient hooks involving things like, you know, disease — things stories are familiar with. It was about inner defeat and the exhaustion of hope. I've read reviews saying Cianfrance isn't clear about what went wrong as they got from there to here.
Is anybody? Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Rated R for strong graphic sexual content, language, and a beating. Mike Vogel as Bobby. Faith Wladyka as Frankie. Michelle Williams as Cindy. John Doman as Jerry. Maryann Plunkett as Glenda. Ryan Gosling as Dean. She explained to Cianfrance that she made a promise to her daughter to tuck her into bed every night and take her to school in the morning.
He was right. The shining star, though, was Gosling. He depicts the kind of person you would fall in love with—kind, clever and nurturing. Another brilliant aspect of the film was that neither character is depicted as hateful or unlovable, an easy tactic used frequently in films as a way to explain a broken relationship. The most successful aspect of the film is its ability to grab you and bring you into the frightening, sincere, hurtful moments between Cindy and Dean.
This realness can be excruciating to watch, because it reminds you of similar moments during the agony experienced when a relationship is falling apart. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign in Join. Sign in. Forgot your password? Whereas men, he says, resist and resist "Until we meet one girl and we think, 'I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl. They are charming and passionate together in their early days, but watching their beginnings we come to see why that love, found so quickly, might have run out.
Rejected by Cindy in a present-day shower lovemaking scene, Dean is cast back to time when she did want him in just that particular, intimate way. His flashback, if you want to call it that, includes a recollection of the day he, smitten, told one of his work buddies, "Maybe I seen too many movies, you know? Love at first sight. But lifted or not, that NC hangs over the movie like a lascivious promise; it might be good to know, if that's what you're looking for, that we don't actually see that much.
The scenes cut so close to the emotional bone that you can understand why they might cause a panic amongst MPAA boardmembers, although of course, it's nothing to be afraid of: just the realism of love in its varied forms.
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