Alfred Molina deserved a best supporting actor nomination. Yes, It was a role that was only a few minutes screen time, but if Judi Dench can win one for basically two scenes in Shakespeare in Love, he should have gotten one for this. The second time seeing it really hit me hard, and I have goosebumps on my arms recalling his confession. It reminded me that almost nobody starts out planning to be a bad person, that almost every lawyer of a certain age originally intended to fight for justice, before finding out that that didn't pay very well.
As I said in the Wonder Woman thread, PYM is an OK movie elevated by Carey Mulligan’s performance. And for that reason I would recommend it.
I saw this last night and it was certainly intriguing and unpredictable, but I was disappointed and I can't really articulate why. I just expected more. I'm not sure it would be worthy of a Best Picture nomination in any year but a Covid year. Mulligan was riveting as usual but her performance wasn't as great IMO as Vanessa Kirby's in Pieces of a Woman.
As the Prime Minister often says in the House of Commons, "I refer to the learned gentleman to my earlier remarks:" Yes, It was a role that was only a few minutes screen time, but if Judi Dench can win one for basically two scenes in Shakespeare in Love, he should have gotten one for this. I didn't see a better, more powerful or more moving performance by an actor in a supporting role last year.
I found it interesting that he receives no on-screen credit for that role And I wonder if Mulligan pushed for him in that role, since he played her father in her breakthrough part in "An Education" ?
I understand that sometimes actors do that, refusing an on-screen credit, to avoid hurting their negotiating position for upcoming films. You may be right, I didn't even think about that. I saw it, but only once in the theater, quite a while ago. We may go see this film in the theater again, while it's still playing in at least a couple of my local AMCs. I'll confess to being a notoriously soft touch emotionally, but Alfred Molina's part in this film honestly moved me to tears. Here's a man who did bad things, who wronged many people, who's honestly remorseful... and there's not a damn thing he can do about those things except ask for forgiveness.
The wife and I watched this tonight after getting the blu-ray from Netflix. Have to admit I didn't think much of it for the first half, but once it pulled us in, it really pulled us in. I would say Mulligan deserves an Oscar, but there's too much good competition out there this year (pandemic not withstanding). As for Alfred Molina being uncredited, isn't that a kind of common thing when big actors take small roles? Something about them being billed so far down can hurt how much they get offered for future work?
Given his fame, he probably would have been billed pretty high up, despite the size of his role, if he chose to be. I suspevt he did the role as a favor to either Mulligan (who he has worked with previously) or director Emerald Ferrell (who also has an extensive acting career...I just found out that she plays Camilla Parker-Bowles on "The Crown")
Lot of time for this flick. Watched it this morning on Sky. At first it comes across as a bit transparent. It isn't. Twists I saw coming and twists I didn't. Carey Mulligan's low-key Fatal Attraction moves are believable. Nice little short roles for Alfred Molina and Connie Britton. As a mate offered "...the reviews warned you not to blink..". Quite clever for him, that.
Also, what was her plan in the final scene if the guy's bed didn't have metal rods to handcuff him to? Most beds have a wood headboard with no place to attach handcuffs. But I did very much enjoy the movie. Great acting, wonderful tone, and inspired directing. Thoroughly enjoyable.
I can forgive that plot device more than I can the Spoiler broken or incorrectly-attached handcuffs. The alcohol-fueled lunch date didn't quite click for me either. But the meeting with the university president was perfection.
Those fluffy cuffs are much cheaper than real police cuffs. Fluffy cuffs are more for novelty gifts or committed couples doing role playing - rather anyone trying to actually escape.
I also recommend. I thought this movie was great and refreshing. I guess yes you could nit pick all sorts of things that don't really make sense or add up but I didn't really find myself doing that in this case. I'm not sure the filmmaker intended everything to be analyzed in such a realistic way.
I concur... Just watched this on HBO last night. It's writing like this that, if you feel like there are 'flaws' in the plot, you start to try and write for yourself, which I am about to do.... so, it's inspiring!
PYW is now streaming on Freevee. Think there were 4 or 5 commercial breaks. I had not seen it until last night. I loved it.
