Today, let's talk about the American movie "Four Beautiful Days".
The title is Four Good Days (2020), alias Four Wonderful Days / Four Good Days.
Libby Alexander (left), Amanda Wendler (right) with the movie poster
The film is based on a feature article by Pulitzer Prize winner Eli Saslow in The Washington Post.
The story is based on a mother and daughter named Libby Alexander and Amanda Wendler.
As of 2021, Amanda Wendler has been successfully detoxified for 4 years. Amanda now joins her mother in her appeal to help drug addicts and their families.
The protagonists in the film are also a mother and daughter, and the daughter Molly (Molly) repeatedly failed to quit drugs and asked her mother Deb for help.
Debb, who had been cheated on countless times, decided to help her daughter again.
Doctors offered her a drug that could be stopped for a long time by injecting her once a month, but only if she hadn't been drugged for four consecutive days, or her life would be in danger.
This time, Molly only needs to do not relapse for four days, and she can get a very promising treatment.
The mother and daughter have made a hard effort to survive these four days.
Despite the title "Four Beautiful Days," these four days are not at all beautiful for mother and daughter. Only if they succeed in drug rehabilitation can they see beauty, otherwise it will be another disaster.
The film sets the tone of the whole film from the first act of the opening, and the mother and daughter explain the background of the characters clearly in just a few sentences at the gate. Molly is a poisonous worm who constantly relapses from drugs, she has made a mess of her family, her parents' family, leaving only sadness and disappointment for those who care for her.
When they saw the poisonous insects, everyone avoided it, and the only person who dared to approach and provide help was probably the mother.
The film is based on a true story, and the story content can also be predicted, the key is to see the performance of the actors and the end of the script.
Looking at the performance first, the actors of the mother and daughter are very good. They struggle and struggle over and over again over addiction, recovery, and forgiveness.
Mila Kunis, who was once selected as one of the 30 sexiest stars in the United States, completely disregarded her own image this time, completely abandoned her beautiful appearance, and modeled her scarred body and rotten teeth, showing the haggardness of a poisonous insect.
Glenn Close, who plays the mother, is also not defeated, brilliantly showing a feeling of being bullied and heartbroken, she wants to help her daughter, but also keeps her guarded, full of contradictions, very gripping.
The final handling of the film wastes the actor's wonderful performance.
In the end, he tries to realize some kind of metaphor through the unfinished puzzle, but ignores the plot after Molly's most dangerous near-death experience. It gives the feeling of losing a watermelon and picking up sesame seeds.
In the days of drug rehabilitation, Molly has been lacking the company of her family, just like the last piece of the puzzle is missing. Molly wants to complete the drug rehab alone like completing this puzzle, always missing a piece. This time with their mother's company, the two of them pushed the puzzle over and over again, symbolizing the most critical piece. But the film came to an abrupt end here and did not continue filming.
Most of the time in the front of the film, the performance is very good, the mother and daughter are tortured and tormented, and when it is almost over, the door is deflated.
"Four Beautiful Days" focuses on the story of a poisonous insect trying to rehabilitate, and the story stops here, without discussing the drug epidemic in beautiful countries, let alone exploring the deep-seated social causes.
In fact, the film can incorporate more social issues into the performance content, and it can be more educational.
Judging from the current performance, it is really a waste of actor performance.
The key points of family affection are completed,
A foot in the door is a bad breath.
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