Ended up seeing Margot at the Wedding… As I was leaving the theater, I overheard some unhappy movie-goers criticize the point of the film—they thought it had none and looked to me and my friend for validation that it “sucked.” I have to disagree. Family dysfunction, the subject of the film, is certainly not pleasant and it *was* uncomfortable watching a family casually humiliate each other one scene after the other. But, I didn’t go to this film expecting to be entertained, although there were bits of humor needled throughout.
Anyway, it’s getting too late for me to really analyze this, but I did want to write about it while it was in my head. Overall, I felt that the movie painted a perfect picture of a truly narcissistic passive-aggressive person and the way people tend to enable it or fight it. I didn’t expect a feel-good movie experience. It was a well-made film with great dialogue and human moments that make people uncomfortable at times and at other times, laugh—all the type of moments we try to forget and/or remember about our own families. Needless to say I didn’t think it “sucked.”
