This is another great example of a movie that changed the way I look at life. It's so easy to judge people based on your first conversation with them, or to sum up a person's entire existence with one mindless sentence of gossip. This movie forces the audience to judge all the characters in the first act and then judges the viewer throughout the rest of the film. We go through many opinion shifts through the course of the story. I started off hating Anne Hathaway's spoiled, irritating character, then hating her dad. And by the end, when I understood them better, my sympathies and respect changed entirely. What a powerfully realistic story of a family!
Jonathan Demme does his best Robert Altman impression and while there's nothing new about the style of filmmaking, it still manages to feel so fresh and full of life. The supporting cast deserves a lot of credit for this. And Anne Hathaway has never been better. She definitely deserved the Oscar more than Kate Winslet. It was a lot of fun to see Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio in the role of the groom. His character doesn't seem to say or do much, but that's exactly what a groom's job is: suit up, show up, and shut up.
"Rachel Getting Married" took me on a surprisingly cathartic journey. Instead of relying on a narrator, flashbacks, or forced back story to explain the family's dysfunctions, we learn about them through the way they interact with each other. Just like in (gasp!) real life. Easily the best wedding movie I've ever seen. Welcome back, Jonathan Demme!
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"Easily the best wedding movie I've ever seen."
Yup, exactly. The long shots of just the family talking and being themselves were so gritty and amazing.
And then Anne went on to do that awful bridezilla movie with whatsername. She was almost so cool...
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