Let's Talk About "The Wife"
Quarantine finally forced me to watch Glenn Close's almost Oscar winner from two years ago, and while I thought she did an extraordinary job in the film, there were a couple of things that really bugged me about it:
1) In the opening scene, it says the year is 1992, and Glenn Close is clearly a woman in her late 60s or early 70s. Then the film flashes back to 1958, when Close is a college student at Smith, which would make her character 21 or 22 at the time. So 34 years later, that would make her character only 56 or 57. No way, honey!
2) The son sure seemed to get upset over the dumbest things. And I was always wanting to comb his ridiculous hair.
Any thoughts from the DLers who've seen this one?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 29, 2020 6:42 PM
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I support Olivia Colman's win. Glenn's performance wasn't bad but it was really nothing special.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 29, 2020 5:46 PM
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The movie was a cold turd -- half boring and half depressing.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 29, 2020 6:02 PM
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The scene with the married couple jumping up and down on the bed and saying over and over again `we won a Nobel peace prize` was beyond dumb.
You notice the son finally combs his hair when his father dies.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 29, 2020 6:24 PM
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R4 That scene was actually key to the film, because later on, you see them in the flashback scene jumping on the bed because Jonathan Pryce has just published his first novel.
Also in that first scene when they're jumping on the bed, Glenn Close eventually says, "That's enough. This is silly."
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 29, 2020 6:42 PM
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