The police just come randomly and she's like, "no, please, stop, don't. And then with the man. When Joy invents a revolutionary new style of mop, she decides to risk everything on a venture into a new form of sales that may make her or star or bankrupt her for life. These women sold their bodies to men at night but as Nigerians are wont to do, she got the devotion Nigerians have to Church. If you're looking for something profound about social commentary, perhaps look elsewhere. Summary: Joy Mangano is a divorced mother of two children who has no hope and stuck in a dead end job, despite having a brilliant mind for invention. (American Hustle is a misfire but the rest is pretty damn good.) A big presentation for class or a job interview. To make: (A) one or two scrappy microbudget festival darlings, then (B) an impressive dramedy with bold-faced names that still bears their charming stamp, then (C) a prestige picture period piece with Hanks or DiCaprio or Clooney or Pitt, where the stars of the show are the Production Design and the Cinematographer, then (D) one of these kiss-of-death Homage-to-Directing circlejerks, followed by (E), (F), (G) and (H) wheel spinning, now-I'm-a-brand, cynical, give-em-what-they-want garbage pile after garbage pile? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures, Press J to jump to the feed. [B]. I have to point out that I really liked the portrayal of the Madame. I wanted to see more of this. tl;dr Jennifer delivers again with David O. Russell's guidance and fun script. Joy is a young Nigerian woman caught in the vicious cycle of sex trafficking. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The couples are forced to lockdown far longer than anticipated (40 days!!) I should point out that the families back home know fully well what their loved ones are doing in Austria and are only concerned about how much they will be getting. If you're looking for a movie about an interesting life, it's a great flick framed around (or better yet inspired by) all brave women, as noted in the introduction. Joy had a great friendship with her ex husband who lived with her, but there was never any plot points about them getting together. Jennifer Lawrence doesn't deserve any nominations. READ MORE: Venice Film Festival Preview: 20 Most Anticipated Movies. It was an action packed episode as things finally happen this week. “No man will harm me!” He has her shout like a young warrior heading off to battle. I can’t imagine a life filled with dead end hope and feeling trapped. I'm sure reddit won't like this comment because it sounds like feminism. I thought it was really good. Cookies help us deliver our Services. It was bolstered by a strong lead performance from Jennifer Lawrence, who, now having closed the book on her Katniss Everdeen role, is allowed much more freedom to explore her talents. I did find some of the acting to be a bit wooden tho. It is ironic that this is the title of the movie as Joy does not experience much joy at all in this movie. She was trying to buy back into the game, with that guy, I guess to go get her daughter. I digressed and didn’t speak much about Joy (the actor’s real name). If Mortezai could have paired that horrific vision of all-encompassing capitalist exploitation—witness the scene near the end where stone-faced men contemptuously throw worthless paper money at dancers—with a more dramatically cohesive narrative, “Joy” might have been something astounding. 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So just pleasures? Jennifer Lawrence doesn't deserve any nominations. This was a good, very well done movie and it is not lost on me that the best Nigerian movie I have seen in a while, is Austrian (why can’t we get things right?) In fact, I can count on one hand the number of times we see her smile. Oh yeah, of course Jennifer Lawrence freezes "dramatically" until her friend picks her out of her trance. There were so many conversations that felt like line reads. Let me know what you think when you watch it. And to top it off, there was never any real drama. Award Show season gives me a high. Check out all our coverage from the 2018 Venice Film Festival here. You know, like real life for women like the ones whose stories were being told. She changes large bills for people. By the way I liked Joy, the editing and cinematography and his trademark weird-flat-yet-micro-obsessive acting style are all great. The thing is, they are each assigned a Madame and the cost of bringing them over, clothing and feeding them is considered a debt that they have to pay back to their Madame before they can achieve freedom. It was just so impossible to invest in any of it. Mortezai’s take on Joy’s entrapment is understandable—Alphonsus barely registers any emotion besides resignation or annoyance in large part because all else has been beaten out of her after years of sexual servitude. There is the occasional flicker of compassion in Joy’s otherwise stony countenance when she sees Precious balk at the gut-churning work they have been forced to do. It's that perfect mixture of a completely shit story and a screenplay that makes it even shittier. Good lord, I feel like this film could have been so much better. Jennifer shined bright in those 10 minutes. I just don’t understand what Joy was doing at the end… With the money. Oscar/Golden Globe worthy? is this the trajectory of the modern successful feature director? It's like all David O. Russell thought going into the movie was, "Hey it stars a "strong female" so I can use Jennifer Lawrence, and hey isn't it whacky how she lives with her ex-husband? The thing is, they are each assigned a Madame and the cost of bringing them over, clothing and feeding them is considered a debt that they have to pay back to their Madame before they can achieve freedom. She’s come a long way since the juju hut and nothing in Joy’s face says any of it has been good. There were no airs with this actors and they spoke exactly as you would expect a Nigerian new to the West would. Joy seems like it was written to be five hours long, but the studio forced them to cut it down to two hours. The price for disobedience is laid out early on when the newest girl, Precious (Precious Mariam Sanusi), resists doing the work and is violently raped by Madame’s enforcers just feet away from Joy. And this usually signals their downfall. This movie is so wholly and fully Nigerian that I was so surprised that the director is Iranian- Dutch director, Sudabeh Mortezai. Most people cannot relate.

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