****This may contain minor spoilers**** The Storyline: Wow, this movie is a revelation. I mean everybody is all "It's about a junkie and her sister's wedding." Well I disagree.
This movie it's about a family trying to struggle against a tragedy that happened several years ago. And how the blame of that said tragedy lies on the shoulders of our lead character Kym, and how she seeks for attention and forgiveness the wrong way, which makes her create a catastrophe days before her sister's wedding.
The wedding represents harmony, a moment to share with your family and friends. But in order to get there you need to get over all the problems and differences you have with them. Kym was not able to do so, first she never forgave herself for what happened to her brother, and second with people treating you like crap and not able to forgive you makes the first one more difficult.
This movie was written so beautifully and the way it was directed and acted make it one great journey into their world, very personal; it felt like you were just another guest feeling awkward because they were trying to fix their issues with you watching.
The characters: It was very easy to understand and sympathize with Kym, at first you think she is just a rebel kid playing the "no one understands me" card, but after she tells all her partners in rehab about her brother you just want to get up and hug her.
To me Rachel (the sister) was a complete immature, she was suppose to be a Psychologist right? So then how come it was so hard for her to understand her sister? I know girls want their wedding to be about them, and they will freak out if someone tries to steal their thunder from them that day (That's what we learn from Annie the last time we saw her on the big screen, right?) But come on! The father was just trying to hard, paying way to much attention to Kym and protecting her, that made it come all the way around, which was his true feelings; unable to trust Kym.
The mother was just a b!tch. It was obvious that she just ran away from her misery life and left her family, not making herself capable to go step by step trying to move on. And it was obvious she never regretted that. Not wanting to be part of the wedding and for me it just felt she was there because she had to.
The Groom was just perfect, he stood by her fiancé every moment, was very supportive and neutral not taking sides.
I also want to add something; everybody complains about how long some scenes were; the rehearsal dinner, specially the toast scene, about the dishwasher scene, and how Kym blame mom for everything.
The toast scene was a bit long, there were too many people taking and it was just use to learn more about the background of the family. It could have been shorter though.
I completely disagree with the dishwasher scene, that scene just show us that they did love each other and were happy about the wedding and enjoyed their selves as family, but that little thing in their past will always be there and will never let them be what they wanted to be.
And that scene with Kym and her mom was the best of the movie. Kym didn't go there to fight her mom and blame her, she went there first because she had no other place to go, and about when she asked why she left her son with a junkie, she was not blaming her mother, she wanted her mom to tell her that there was good in her and that she loved her and trusted her, that she was her daughter and she never saw her like a junkie, in other words, she was looking for sympathy from her mom.
Last but not least, Anne Hathaway was at her best here.
I have to be honest I only watched this film because she was on it. And I'm glad she was, because this movie is a must watch, and if it wasn't for her I would've never watch it.
This movie it's about a family trying to struggle against a tragedy that happened several years ago. And how the blame of that said tragedy lies on the shoulders of our lead character Kym, and how she seeks for attention and forgiveness the wrong way, which makes her create a catastrophe days before her sister's wedding.
The wedding represents harmony, a moment to share with your family and friends. But in order to get there you need to get over all the problems and differences you have with them. Kym was not able to do so, first she never forgave herself for what happened to her brother, and second with people treating you like crap and not able to forgive you makes the first one more difficult.
This movie was written so beautifully and the way it was directed and acted make it one great journey into their world, very personal; it felt like you were just another guest feeling awkward because they were trying to fix their issues with you watching.
The characters: It was very easy to understand and sympathize with Kym, at first you think she is just a rebel kid playing the "no one understands me" card, but after she tells all her partners in rehab about her brother you just want to get up and hug her.
To me Rachel (the sister) was a complete immature, she was suppose to be a Psychologist right? So then how come it was so hard for her to understand her sister? I know girls want their wedding to be about them, and they will freak out if someone tries to steal their thunder from them that day (That's what we learn from Annie the last time we saw her on the big screen, right?) But come on! The father was just trying to hard, paying way to much attention to Kym and protecting her, that made it come all the way around, which was his true feelings; unable to trust Kym.
The mother was just a b!tch. It was obvious that she just ran away from her misery life and left her family, not making herself capable to go step by step trying to move on. And it was obvious she never regretted that. Not wanting to be part of the wedding and for me it just felt she was there because she had to.
The Groom was just perfect, he stood by her fiancé every moment, was very supportive and neutral not taking sides.
I also want to add something; everybody complains about how long some scenes were; the rehearsal dinner, specially the toast scene, about the dishwasher scene, and how Kym blame mom for everything.
The toast scene was a bit long, there were too many people taking and it was just use to learn more about the background of the family. It could have been shorter though.
I completely disagree with the dishwasher scene, that scene just show us that they did love each other and were happy about the wedding and enjoyed their selves as family, but that little thing in their past will always be there and will never let them be what they wanted to be.
And that scene with Kym and her mom was the best of the movie. Kym didn't go there to fight her mom and blame her, she went there first because she had no other place to go, and about when she asked why she left her son with a junkie, she was not blaming her mother, she wanted her mom to tell her that there was good in her and that she loved her and trusted her, that she was her daughter and she never saw her like a junkie, in other words, she was looking for sympathy from her mom.
Last but not least, Anne Hathaway was at her best here.
I have to be honest I only watched this film because she was on it. And I'm glad she was, because this movie is a must watch, and if it wasn't for her I would've never watch it.