At the end of each Oscar, while caring about the winners, everyone will also fight for some of the losers, believing that the organizing committee "owes ta an Oscar", and Glenn Cross is one of them.
Earlier this year, Glenn Cross won the Golden Globe Award for Film Queen for "The Good Wife", the first time in more than 40 years since she entered the industry that she won the Golden Globe Award for Drama Queen, and many people thought that she would win the Oscar, but the result was somewhat unsatisfactory.
Glenn Cross speaks after winning the Golden Globe Award for Drama
But no matter what the result, her excellent performance is imprinted in the hearts of the audience, and it has to be mentioned that this "Virtuous Wife" is more wonderful because of her.
Glenn Cross attends the 91st Academy Awards
The film "The Virtuous Wife" is based on the novel of the same name, although the novel is not a true story, but it also realistically portrays the background of the era when women were oppressed by inequality in the 1850s and 1860s.
And when we imagine that we are also in the context of that era to look at this story, we can better appreciate the mood twist of Joan played by Glenn Cross, who has long played the role of a virtuous wife behind her husband, and thus can enter the core of the plot.
"The Virtuous Wife" tells the story of Joe (Jonathan Pres), a writer who is about to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, who travels to Sweden with his wife Joan (Glenn Cross) and his son David (Max Irons).
On the eve of the award, because the biographer Nathaniel (played by Christian Slater) in order to verify some writing styles and processes, coupled with the writer Joe's temperament, actually went to Sweden to tease the female photographer accompanying the film, so that joan who accompanied him could not bear it, and finally broke out into a dispute, but also revealed the secret of the "shadow writer" they originally wanted to hide for a lifetime.
The film constantly uses interludes and flashbacks to tell about the events of the 1960s, including the book conference and the publisher's thinking, all in order to let the audience better understand the atmosphere of that era. Experience that in the past, women in that era of inequality, it was not easy to have a head start, even in literary writing and publication.
In this way, as an audience, you can better understand the repression and contradictions of the heroine, she made sacrifices for the family, and for more than 40 years, she suffered unreasonable treatment for a long time, and only then did she achieve her husband's literary career.
It's just, can't women pursue career achievements? Should women stand behind men all their lives, sacrificing themselves for love and for their families? Joan told everyone with her actions that this was not the case.
The dramatic conflict of "The Virtuous Wife" is not large, but the acting skills shown by the two veteran actors in the film are an important highlight of the play, and the rivalry scenes between Jonathan Press and Glenn Cross are wonderful in each play.
Although in the big female protagonist, the male role suffers a slight loss, but Pres plays this amorous writer who is still old and charming, playing three points, which not only makes people hate, but also makes people feel that he is very attractive.
Glenn Cross, who has been nominated for multiple films in a row, has performed the inner drama very well, the expression of her face, the transformation and convergence of emotions are very in place, no wonder this play can make her enter the industry for more than 40 years to hold the first Golden Globe Award.
What's even more interesting is that the actor who plays Joan in her youth is Glenn Cross's biological daughter Anne Stark, so she can convey the appearance of the heroine without special effects at all.
Then again, in fact, the so-called secret of the dark line in the plot, as well as the conflict of the story, in fact, from the flashback interspersed with Joan and Joe's acquaintance, it has been vaguely possible to spy on one or two.
Joe was married at the time and was a literature professor at the university, while Joan was an exceptionally talented student. She herself is attracted to Joe's humor and admires Joe's style, Joe has a fairly good eloquence, can describe the story in a vacuum, but in the characters and details of the promotion arrangement, metaphors and other literary skills, but not as unique as Joan's student's ideas and ingenuity.
Later, Joe divorced his ex-wife and married Joan, but the poor writer could not support the family, and the work was not published smoothly, and later when Joe fell into a writing bottleneck, Joan adjusted for her husband like a "family OEM", and then created it twice, which was called "revision".
When they were first recognized by the publisher, the two excitedly held hands and jumped on the bed together, just like the opening scene, after they were intimate like an old husband and wife, they suddenly received the news of the Waiting Nobel Prize in Literature, and the two old people jumped on the bed like children, which was their celebration ceremony. For them, whether they publish or win awards, it is "we" together.
But the winners are not two people, not a couple group, but individuals, the glory is in the husband, and when she socializes at the banquet before receiving the award, Joan is always introduced as a virtuous wife like a "housewife". Coupled with the fact that her husband has been saying to the outside world from his youth to the outside world that his wife cannot write, the anger that Joan has accumulated for more than 40 years has completely exploded.
The secret twist of "The Virtuous Wife" broke out quickly, using the technique of mutual stimulation and successive detonation of characters in the drama, first the biographer ignited the "fuse", and then the son who has been living in the shadow of his father and wanted to be a writer, depressed with childhood memories to verify his parents, and finally after her husband almost had an affair and made a mistake, he soothed her anger in a consistent way, so that Joan could no longer bear it.
However, compared with the expected explosion, the development of the situation is out of control, and the ending of "The Virtuous Wife" has reversed. Just when everyone thought that Joan would announce the truth to the world no matter what, she chose to keep silent. Of course, there are external factors in this, but it is more of her own active choice.
In the end, in terms of personal achievement and family value, Joan still chose to return to the family, which is the tolerance of women, and the decision to pay for love and sacrifice for the family. So, is this decision silly? Yes, from the perspective of contemporary feminism, no one can endorse such a choice.
But in those days, she shook everything apart, and she faced more than just broken marriages, broken families, and perhaps other criticisms. She may also win some literary achievements, but her children may be ridiculed for it, so she finally abandons herself and completes the integrity of the family.
As the old saying goes, someone has to sacrifice and give for the family, and this is the greatest place for women. Fortunately, it is difficult for us to see such a tragedy today, in fact, sometimes "feminism" is not to make women how high the status, but to ensure that women enjoy equal rights, in order not to let the tragedy of that era happen again.
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