With ‘Mother Mary’ as Hollywood’s Latest Implausible Pop Star, Why Does Every Fictional Music Movie Have to Feel So Phony?
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With ‘Mother Mary’ as Hollywood’s Latest Implausible Pop Star, Why Does Every Fictional Music Movie Have to Feel So Phony?
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Because every real pop star is so phony.
It’s funny because the Trolls movies are wacky animated comedies, but they have more realistic characters than these live action flicks. The villains from Band Together were all too real in today’s industry, was a really smart commentary on modern pop in a movie made for babies and I really wasn’t expecting it
An entire article where the author shows that he clearly didn’t get the movie.
SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE.
The main idea of this movie isn’t about this pop singer or her music. It’s about the death of the once extremely close friendship of these two women. The music is put on the backburner on purpose in order to focus on Mary and Sam, themselves. We are not supposed think about how good or bad the music is or the dancing is because, again, that’s not the point. This dead friendship is.
>one of the women literally reaches inside the other to pull out a ghost, which has taken the form of a scarf.
Nope. Not a scarf. Its a bolt of cloth because Sam is a fashion designer and it represents the relationship between Sam and Mary because Mary’s popstar look initially came from Sam. Sam came up with the look, a look she put herself in because of her Catholic background and how she saw Mary, how she looked up to her and saw her as a Saint like person. While on Mary’s side, Mary came up with the music. The creation of “Mother Mary” was the marriage of the talents of these two close friends. And that’s why Sam won’t listen to Mary’s music because that would be like figuratively listening to her as a friend when their friendship is supposed to be dead.
Look, this movie is like the movie, Mother! where if you go in it and take it at face value you are going to come out frustrated. Almost everything in Mother Mary is symbolic. Again, it’s a metaphor for the death of friendship and how that death can haunt you even if you say that it doesn’t. Even if you act like it doesn’t. The popstar aspect doesn’t matter. The music doesn’t matter. The friendship does.
I saw the movie yesterday. And, personally, I loved it. Again, if you take the movie at face value, you are going to be pulling your hair out going, “None of this makes sense!” like the way the author did. But if you go realizing that this is a surreal film where everything is metaphor for friendship then it works. Michaela Coel and Anne Hathaway are fantastic. They have so much chemistry. The dream-like direction is gorgeous.