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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Pretty good and enjoyable with a few small flaws!
The Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 film, which traces the relationships between homemaker and old women who move through the old stories of two girls and their life paths. Starring Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, and likable Jessica Tandy. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category: Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Tandy) and Best Screenplay.
My first impression after watching this movie was that it was great, but as soon as I thought about it, I concluded that there were mistakes that did not necessarily diminish his message, but the quality of the message. The film is not perfect and has left room for progress, however, due to the interesting content and the length of the story itself, which is not easy to summarize in two hours and 10 minutes without sounding at least a little recognizable and at times predictable, the film left a very good impression on me. I cannot but mention the fact that before I started watching the movie I saw somewhere that this movie was a comedy, and this movie practically could not be further from a comedy by having only one scene that acted comically and I do not say that as a criticism of the movie, the movie is a very good drama, but it is by no means comedy or anything like that.
After only a few minutes of watching, on my mind was my favorite movie to ever watch Forrest Gump. Sitting on the couch and starting a story out of the blue to a completely unknown person who didn't ask for it. For a second, I was reminded of Forrest Gump and the way the story is interrupted again calls for certain similarities between the films. Particularly striking is the similarity of the enthusiasm the characters give over and over again in the story. The difference is that in this movie, the old woman (Jessica Tandy) is not talking about her life, but about someone else's life. That's where one of my criticisms of the film comes from, which is the fact that it took me a lot longer to relate to the story because it is presented far from a character being the story, I didn't get that immediate connection, nor did I get that level of emotion when the story stoped that is present in Forrest Gump. In this movie, every time I went on with the story I was fully aware that it was a story, it did not have enough power to get me into it being an action that takes place over time and not through someone else's stories. To be fair, this is almost impossible to achieve in a movie where one of the main characters tells a story and it is not necessary for the movie to be successful.
It is fascinating how there are people who live their treacherous years and are happy, full of energy and feeling more alive every day, and death is already knocking on their door, while on the other hand, there are so many people who have so much in front of them, so many opportunities, chances for failure and retry, and they feel as if they will die tomorrow, and as if all their joy and happiness had long left their miserable life. Perhaps even more fascinating is how such an old person has the power to transfer that vibrancy and energy to someone who is twice younger, I doesnt have too much logic, but life can be illogical at times, maybe that's why it's so interesting.
The detail in the movie that I was most impressed with was the fact that the old woman (Jessica Tandy) does not change the life of the housewife (Kathy Bates) by telling her what to do and the story she tells is not such that she wants to live, there are elements in a story that she describes as motives for real life, but the story as such is not the direction and intention of the old woman to serve as a change in her life, it is the story in its most proper form, to be interesting, to occupy time and to extract some motivation along the way. message or symbolism such as the tomatoes themselves in a way that you must discover for yourself. Her life doesn't change because of the storyes she hears, her life changes because of the way she hears it.
The scenario is interesting, but a little too repetitive and in my humble opinion unnecessarily tragic in some moments. Directed without exaggeration, there is a lot of focus on the facial expression of the characters, which is very important for this film because of its reactions to various events throughout the film. Actress Jessica Tandy thrilled me and gave one extra dimension to the weight and quality of the movie itself. Also, the rest of the cast is at a high level. The overall impression is very positive, and the biggest objections would be the exaggerated tragedy that comes with a kind of repetitiveness, and within that a certain predictability, which grows as the film progresses and how we learn about the style by which it is written. Also insufficient elaboration of the action outside the story and the time it takes to emotionally connect with the story. Despite its minor flaws, the movie largely met my expectations. I rate the movie 7/10, recommend it to anyone who loves tragic, lifelong, and family dramas, and I deeply hope that all of us will someday be old men and women with a smile on their faces, because that is the best proof that we have succeeded in life.