{"id":170027,"date":"2021-02-03T22:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-sharp-look-at-hollywood-narcissism\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:49:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:49:32","slug":"a-sharp-look-at-hollywood-narcissism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-sharp-look-at-hollywood-narcissism\/","title":{"rendered":"#A sharp look at Hollywood narcissism"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A sharp look at Hollywood narcissism<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 106 min. Rated: R (profanity). On Netflix.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

You know those \u201coops\u201d moments when a star is caught not thanking their significant other in an awards acceptance speech? (Hilary Swank\u2019s husband snub of 2000 springs to mind.) \u201cMalcolm & Marie,\u201d out Friday, ponders \u2014 as we all have, right? \u2014 what happ<\/a>ens later that evening, when the couple gets home. <\/p>\n

And it isn\u2019t pretty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Writer\/director Sam Levinson\u2019s black and white rendering sure is, though; his film even begins with old-fashioned credits meant to evoke, hmm, could it be \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u201d John David Washington (\u201cTenet\u201d) is Malcolm, a director who\u2019s finally made a movie people are taking seriously. His longtime girlfriend Marie (Zendaya, also the star of Levinson\u2019s HBO show \u201cEuphoria\u201d), is convinced she inspired the film\u2019s main character \u2014 which makes his omission of her name in his speech earlier that night doubly insulting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Zendaya and John David Washington star in \u201cMalcolm & Marie,\u201d out Friday.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cMalcolm & Marie\u201d takes place over the course of a single evening as the couple veers through every conceivable emotion. (It is reportedly one of the first films that was made during the pandemic, so the one-location shoot and tiny cast make a lot of sense<\/a>.) Anger and resentment quickly bubble to the surface, leaving you wondering how or why these two have stuck together as long as they have. But Washington and Zendaya, freed from lockdown, dig into the dialogue with zest, and they\u2019ve got a palpable chemistry even in the midst of some horribly hurtful exchanges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s character also has a marathon rant about critics \u2014 particularly one \u201cwhite girl from the LA Times\u201d \u2014 that this critic found pretty entertaining, if rather obviously a mouthpiece for the screenwriter\u2019s own frustration with reviews. It broadens into Malcolm giving a stomping, yelling tirade against conflating a director\u2019s identity with the subject of a film, of inferring political notions where there is only art. \u201cBut you love political movies<\/a>,\u201d Marie points out, bemused. That\u2019s not the point, Malcolm insists: Is his viewpoint irrelevant now because he\u2019s a man? Because he\u2019s straight?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s an eye-roller. But it\u2019s also a rather hilarious window into the extreme narcissism of Hollywood, where even a rave review can elicit an epic meltdown. Zendaya\u2019s Marie, a recovering addict, has her own demons, but she\u2019s got a clear-eyed view of her lover and his gigantic flaws. In her own rendition of a thank-you speech, she gives voice to the legion of overlooked, long-suffering Hollywood spouses. Chad Lowe, this one\u2019s for you.\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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