Honestly speaking, I was flipping through news channels few days ago and suddenly in one channel found the Oscar nominations for this year. Yes, you guessed it right; The Descendants was there in the best movie and best actor (male) category among others.
A simple, common story of a middle aged man going through mid-life crisis but presented in a superb manner. Matt King, a lawyer one fine day suddenly finds that his life is not going as smoothly as he expected it to be. His wife, after spending so many years with him suddenly got interested in someone else, his two daughters always prefer their mommy over their dad, and his hectic work life almost screwing his personal life. In order to solve this jig-saw puzzle Matt tries to connect with his daughters. Sudden boat accident of his wife forces him to look into himself.
A land baron by heritage, Matt could have lived a luxurious life, but decided to lead it like a simple middle class family man living on his earning from law practice. In absence of his injured wife he goes on to give more time to his daughters and gets shockingly surprised to find his elder daughter as a drug addict school going teenager . His thinking process goes to complete disarray. In a bizarre turn of events he discover the recent unfaithfulness of his wife to him, just when he was praying to god that once she recovers completely she will find Matt, her husband as a completely changed man, a person who pays more attention to his family and enjoys life more than before.
Even the darkest cloud has a ray of sunlight at the end of it. Matt finds that ray of sun in his elder daughter Alexandra who is extremely angry with the way her mother treated her dad. Her sister Scootie being so young and so cute fails to understand how she should react to all these serious incidents happening around her. The question of selling out their huge land arises and amidst of all these, Matt starts negotiating with his cousins for that.All these incidents take parallel routes and goes on till the end.Will Matt be able to survive the tide?Will Alexandra help help dad to regain his lost confidence? I don’t want to tell more because I expect all the readers of this post to watch that movie.
Elegant as ever, George Clooney does perfect justice to the role of Matt king. So is Shailene Woodley aka Alexandra. Director Alexander Payne could have shortened the length of the movie a bit but anyways does fantastic job. A movie you can watch with your family members and leave the hall clapping at the histrionics of all the actors.
My Rating : 7.5/10
IMDB link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1033575/
A simple, common story of a middle aged man going through mid-life crisis but presented in a superb manner. Matt King, a lawyer one fine day suddenly finds that his life is not going as smoothly as he expected it to be. His wife, after spending so many years with him suddenly got interested in someone else, his two daughters always prefer their mommy over their dad, and his hectic work life almost screwing his personal life. In order to solve this jig-saw puzzle Matt tries to connect with his daughters. Sudden boat accident of his wife forces him to look into himself.
A land baron by heritage, Matt could have lived a luxurious life, but decided to lead it like a simple middle class family man living on his earning from law practice. In absence of his injured wife he goes on to give more time to his daughters and gets shockingly surprised to find his elder daughter as a drug addict school going teenager . His thinking process goes to complete disarray. In a bizarre turn of events he discover the recent unfaithfulness of his wife to him, just when he was praying to god that once she recovers completely she will find Matt, her husband as a completely changed man, a person who pays more attention to his family and enjoys life more than before.
Even the darkest cloud has a ray of sunlight at the end of it. Matt finds that ray of sun in his elder daughter Alexandra who is extremely angry with the way her mother treated her dad. Her sister Scootie being so young and so cute fails to understand how she should react to all these serious incidents happening around her. The question of selling out their huge land arises and amidst of all these, Matt starts negotiating with his cousins for that.All these incidents take parallel routes and goes on till the end.Will Matt be able to survive the tide?Will Alexandra help help dad to regain his lost confidence? I don’t want to tell more because I expect all the readers of this post to watch that movie.
Elegant as ever, George Clooney does perfect justice to the role of Matt king. So is Shailene Woodley aka Alexandra. Director Alexander Payne could have shortened the length of the movie a bit but anyways does fantastic job. A movie you can watch with your family members and leave the hall clapping at the histrionics of all the actors.
My Rating : 7.5/10
IMDB link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1033575/
