Joy

A slightly 'newer' film, released within the last year or two and staring a blog favourite Jenifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, Silver Lining Playbooks). It'a tough world, most of us shared those feelings, beliefs and experiences when dealt a stack of extremely rubbish cards and almost all of us have watched a film showing how tough life can be. Erin Brokovitch and Brassed Off are the two that automatically spring to mind but there are many out there. Joy is another one, showing more than just how tough it can be when you split up with your husband, imagine trying to make a life for yourself when your parents split up years ago, your dad has just been dumped by his latest love and so has come to stay, your ex husband is living in your basement singing in a night club but hardly providing any income and your mother also lives with you- oh and not to mention that you have a few children and a half sister who you don't really like.

That is what the character Joy (Jenifer Lawrence) has to deal with everyday. It looks to be okay when she gets an idea for a mop after cutting her palms open when mopping up some broken glass until her family actually show how rubbish they can be with money and the business and she discovers that she is being done for fraud. It all looks like too much for her to handle but she is an incredibly strong women, does what she needs to do, uncovers the fraud, gets her money back and sells a lot of her product before turning it into a huge business.

As one would expect, where there is Jenifer Lawrence there is also Bradley Cooper but he is a smaller supporting character appearing towards the end of the movie. With support also coming from Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez (The Bourne Ultimatum, Vantage Point) the film is well supported and actually very well cast. From the moment the narration starts you know that it is going to be a good film, better than a good film, a great film. There is something about the way that the line was written that makes it almost magical. Everything that Brokovitch had, that Brassed Off had, the pain, the struggle, the determination, the happier ending is all here in this film. It's all here, so stopping putting it off and just watch the film.

Next up will be a film called 'Spotlight' and it's about abuse in the Roman Catholic church in America. The film is incredibly blunt and to the point, they aren't really trying to hide anything so if you are a catholic or if you don't want to watch it then don't. We all know what was going on and we have probably all seen it on the news. It was necessary to make a film about it, the world makes films about all scandals and it was necessary for the truth to come out. I feel it is important to say that on this blog we were raised and some of us are still Catholic. The inclusion of this film is not an attack of the Catholic church by us, we aren't selective about films, we take all kinds of films on this blog even if they are of a unpleasant nature. We apologise to anyone that will take offence from this film being included but I wont back down on it's inclusion.