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April 6, 2014 at 6:27 pm #372Daniell MartinezParticipant
This may be poor word choice but I find Hannah’s review so spot on as well as the commentary from Dorothea and Victoria. After watching this movie, I was in disbelief because I had so many unanswered questions which kept me confused. I was overwhelmed with the entire plot line. For one thing, I feel like we, as the audience, are thrown right into the middle of Sadie’s life when she is in the car with her Jasmine, i think that is his name, and we aren’t given any information about her besides drinking too much the night before and hence why the first scene made it look as if she were hungover. I couldn’t understand why she cried when her sister, Georgia sang, but for some reason, then I was able to see that Sadie could have been envious of her older sister. Georgia being a successful movie artist and mother in contrast to Sadie showed that they were on two different sides of the spectrum of success. Not to mention that their father only visits and stays in contact with Georgia so jealousy was inevitable. What I truly found distasteful about this film was the loud, bad singing. I understand that Sadie wanted to be a successful artist and maybe she is into the rock genre and the volume of her voice is elevated but I would have thought the director would have adjusted the volume for the viewers. To be blunt, the scenes of her singing were dreadful and nearly unbearable to watch. I was on the verge to cover my ears because I wasn’t expecting Sadie to sing like that. I don’t want my comment to be seen so negatively but it was difficult to find something I enjoyed. One good aspect of the film would have to be the acting. Sadie played her role to the fullest because I actually felt sympathetic towards her when she was going through withdrawals and her alcohol issues. Still, I am in bewilderment because I don’t understand why she relapsed and began to drink all over again. It was as if her experiences with her drug and alcohol abuse didn’t affect her because in the beginning of the movie when she first performed, she received a drink and said “thank you Conrad” and then the movie ends with a scene fairly similar showing that Sadie is going to continue to travel down the wrong road.
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