A woman under the influence is a film about an eccentric family with Gena Rowlands starring as a housewife who has an emotional disorder, she is behaving oddly, can't handle her emotions, doesn't know what to do, insecure, unsettled , lacking confidence in her deeds. While her husband seems to play the classic father role model, with their three kids that added a spontaneous and sincere climate to the movie.
The scene where Nick brought his friends with him and Mabel asked whether they want to have spaghetti for breakfast. a while after, Mabel was talking oddly to nick's friends but their feedbacks were like '' well she is weird , but she has a kind soul'', until she kept asking and insisting the black guy whom she found cute to dance with her(which the black guy appeared to take it a bit too seriously)nick overreacted by asking Mabel to SAT HER ASS DOWN , again Mabel failed to make a normal family-friendly discussion.
Mabel frequently suffers from anxious attacks that unfolded to us in a scene when she started building-up her own fictive delusions in which she starts to believe as asking where the heck her children are? Which is a question she can perfectly answer!!?? One of the key scene in the movie is when Mabel will to her children by asking them their opinion about her, the children replied '' I think you are smart, funny, and Nervous!!'', that's another aspect of the movie, How do the children see their mother? Do they think that she is crazy as the rest of the family or not? Certainly not. the emotions shared between the children and Mabel were really the only truthful ones throughout the whole movie, that is to say children did easily interact with their mothers behavior, notwithstanding the emotion disorder that Mabel is suffering from.
On the contrary, for her mother in law and her husband both of them think that she is out of her mind and started to get nutty and mad so they decided to take her to a psychiatric hospital where she will be treated.
After Mabel came back from the hospital, the whole of her family gathered in order to welcome her so she will feel secure and safe again, but it was until her husband cracked up telling to go back to her old self, starting from that scene both the husband and wife showed simultaneously that the real problem is with both of them.
This is my first John Cassavetes film, which as I noticed is someone who focus more on the emotional experience than the quality or the awe that can a beautiful picture make as impact on us, thus the active camera seemingly going everywhere, so if someone is interested in the film he or she has to really get into the heart of the movie otherwise it won't be that attractive, therefore it will be difficult to grasp the crux of the movie. moreover John cassavetes loved to work with the people he already knew we can take his wife Gena Rowlands and his friend Peter Falk as examples, it means that John wanted to have that emotional fluidity which enable the movie to be more realistic and influential.
Still, I can't say exactly under which influence Mabel was, sure it's an influence and nothing more because Melba still is a better parent than her husband, but I would extremely disagree with the people that naively qualify Mabel as someone crazy, out of her mind because '' This woman cooks, sews, makes the bed, washes the bathroom; what the hell is crazy about that?''.
The scene where Nick brought his friends with him and Mabel asked whether they want to have spaghetti for breakfast. a while after, Mabel was talking oddly to nick's friends but their feedbacks were like '' well she is weird , but she has a kind soul'', until she kept asking and insisting the black guy whom she found cute to dance with her(which the black guy appeared to take it a bit too seriously)nick overreacted by asking Mabel to SAT HER ASS DOWN , again Mabel failed to make a normal family-friendly discussion.
Mabel frequently suffers from anxious attacks that unfolded to us in a scene when she started building-up her own fictive delusions in which she starts to believe as asking where the heck her children are? Which is a question she can perfectly answer!!?? One of the key scene in the movie is when Mabel will to her children by asking them their opinion about her, the children replied '' I think you are smart, funny, and Nervous!!'', that's another aspect of the movie, How do the children see their mother? Do they think that she is crazy as the rest of the family or not? Certainly not. the emotions shared between the children and Mabel were really the only truthful ones throughout the whole movie, that is to say children did easily interact with their mothers behavior, notwithstanding the emotion disorder that Mabel is suffering from.
On the contrary, for her mother in law and her husband both of them think that she is out of her mind and started to get nutty and mad so they decided to take her to a psychiatric hospital where she will be treated.
After Mabel came back from the hospital, the whole of her family gathered in order to welcome her so she will feel secure and safe again, but it was until her husband cracked up telling to go back to her old self, starting from that scene both the husband and wife showed simultaneously that the real problem is with both of them.
This is my first John Cassavetes film, which as I noticed is someone who focus more on the emotional experience than the quality or the awe that can a beautiful picture make as impact on us, thus the active camera seemingly going everywhere, so if someone is interested in the film he or she has to really get into the heart of the movie otherwise it won't be that attractive, therefore it will be difficult to grasp the crux of the movie. moreover John cassavetes loved to work with the people he already knew we can take his wife Gena Rowlands and his friend Peter Falk as examples, it means that John wanted to have that emotional fluidity which enable the movie to be more realistic and influential.
Still, I can't say exactly under which influence Mabel was, sure it's an influence and nothing more because Melba still is a better parent than her husband, but I would extremely disagree with the people that naively qualify Mabel as someone crazy, out of her mind because '' This woman cooks, sews, makes the bed, washes the bathroom; what the hell is crazy about that?''.