I found the movie Gloria Bell troubling leading up to the halfway point. The main problem is that Gloria Bell is very unlikable. I don't feel anything for her, or her plight. Okay, she likes to drive a lot, we got it after the fourth scene showing her driving, and listening to music.
But what I didn't understand, so she's avoiding Arthur after he ghosts her at a family party where she was basically ignoring him. She doesn't answer the phone, she doesn't talk to him in the parking lot. He's sending her flowers, and what not. But then she watches a street show of some guy dancing around a skeleton puppet on strings, and then she suddenly decides to finally answer the phone. Next scene, they're flying together on a trip to Vegas? What? Did I just miss a half hour of plot development where she finally trusted him again? lol. And then the guy decides to abandon her again, in Vegas! Lol, I guess he figured she sucked. I certainly didn't feel any sympathy for her. And why did she keep his bag of paint gun paraphanelia all this time? Oh yeah, you'll find out at the ending. It's really lame, and really a forced plot 'turn' I guess, if you want to call it that. The director forcing a 'you go girl' moment.
Strangely, her family also disappears in that second half of the movie. Okay, we did have that Oscar bait scene of Julianne Moore over-acting crying when she watched her daughter go into the airport screening area, so we know why the daughter was out of the picture. But what about Michael Cera?
And what was the point of having that screaming neighbour? So she could acquire a free bag of drugs? It was pointless, and he also seemed to disappear in the second half of the film.
A very weak film, random scenes, no chemistry between Arthur and Gloria, but they like to screw like rabbits every time they see each other. I don't really know or care about the original version of this movie, sounds to me like it probably is worth skipping too.
Review of Gloria Bell
