Tuesday 30 December 2014

Julie & Julia


Rating: 40%

Julie & Julia (2009)…
(www.aceshowbiz.com)
Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
2009
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Romance
Director:
Nora Ephron…
Outstanding Performance:
Meryl STREEP…
Premiss:
Housewife cooks all the recipes in a cook-book for a dare.
Themes:
Alienation | Friendship | Identity | Loneliness | Narcissism | Political Correctness | Self-belief | Self-expression | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Unknown
Review Format:
DVD

Joy of Solipsism

Mediocre movie about mediocre Whites that is as trivially-obsessed with trivia as its mediocre characters. This determination to be decidedly-average is made worse by the White use of blogging as a substitute for being published by peer-reviewing (& rejecting) publishing houses; hence, the awesome trivia and nutter-on-the-street-corner-talking-to-himself quality of real-life White blogs.

This one concerns the White obsession with using food as a means of cementing personal relationships - as if the means of sustaining life could also sustain marriages and friendships. That such is not the case is emphasized by the shallowness of the self-absorbed characters on offer here and the perfunctory critique of McCarthyism.

Julie & Julia (2009)…
(http://hellogiggles.com)

Too much dramatic padding extends this film beyond its natural shelf-life to two hours. If it were not for Meryl STREEP (doing a kind of drunken Wendy Hiller) and some lovingly-photographed edibles, this would be sheer torture from start to finish.

(If Jane Austen can offer profound observations about the lives of middle-class Whites - despite her miniscule social-palette - why can’t Nora Ephron?)

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