Margot at the Wedding, 2007

A psychological drama that has no traits whatsoever of the alleged comedy it is supposed to be. Or do I just not understand what is funny about the ***y Margot (Nicole Kidman)? Or should I think the tragically helpless Malcolm (Jack Black) is funny. They are the opposites in a revealing study of the successful woman and her emotional poverty. Margot has really made it: a career as a writer, a sweet husband (John Torturo) and a dedicated son. But she is so full of herself, so self-righteous in her success, her morals and her amateur psychology of others. And she pushes and pulls them around, like figurines on a stage. Her main victims are her sister and her son, because they want to be close to her. She constantly humiliates them in subtle, hardly noticeable ways. Unfortunately I know too many women in real life who are exactly like her, so the drama is almost too painful to watch. But that, eventually, is only a measure of how smart the script is. And Jack Black's character? He is the under-achiever who is unable of manipulating people and emotions. He is honest and sincere and thus as apparently ugly as real people tend to be. And his golden heart is not rewarded.

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