But that has its own issues, its like a slight reversal of Silver Linings Playbook, where she is the now main character returning home to re-stablish broken bonds with family and finding another lost soul to ease her journey and find redemption....its not a criticism, just an observation
She still makes a lot of the material, just theres not the "air sucked out of the room" moment that better writing may have provided...the closest to that is probably the pool scene where both her and her new friend (excellently handled by Brian Tyree Henry) both highlight unkind but accurate character failures of the other, both in the classic method of hurt others to avoid self assessment or to take accountability. Its felt, but thats as close to a human moment there is in the entire film.
I'd watch Jennifer Lawrence eat cereal, and this is still a good performance.
I hope to see more of Mr Henry....
She still makes a lot of the material, just theres not the "air sucked out of the room" moment that better writing may have provided...the closest to that is probably the pool scene where both her and her new friend (excellently handled by Brian Tyree Henry) both highlight unkind but accurate character failures of the other, both in the classic method of hurt others to avoid self assessment or to take accountability. Its felt, but thats as close to a human moment there is in the entire film.
I'd watch Jennifer Lawrence eat cereal, and this is still a good performance.
I hope to see more of Mr Henry....