GamerTab That was an excellent one.
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Dog112 What would happen if you could surgically trisect the personality of a lonely woman into three distinct personalities (somewhat like Multiple Personality Disorder, but with no common root, and no need for escape or protection from a hellish reality) and put them in three separate bodies? What might they be like? Finally set free from the constraints of the others and allowed to surface and breathe free as individuals, what would these new women reveal about their desires and frustrations and strengths and gaping frailties? One could be a child with amnesia, experiencing the world for the first time, as though she had just been let out of her house for the first time, or as though she were an alien from another world, a la Starman (1984).One could be a young post-adolescent woman who learns her social and fashion and cooking skills by reading how-to magazine articles.One could be an angry artist, disgusted with her husband, a useless, one-speed hedonist.What if they could somehow find each other and become one whole person, greater than the sum of her parts? What if they existed only as characters in the dream of a woman who had moved to a new town in order to put her past behind her and start a new life?
rdoyle29 Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall) works at a spa for elderly folks. Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) is a new employee that Millie is assigned to show the ropes. Pinky is childlike and naive and almost instantly becomes completely enamored with MIllie. She moves in with her and slowly starts to become her. Millie is extremely talkative and organizes her life around what she reads in women's magazines. She talks to everyone constantly, but most of them are never listening, and those that do openly ridicule her. Altman is clearly very inspired by "Persona", so much so that, like that film, the action here is halted by a violent action and the entire film is restructured from that point on. The third titular woman is Willie Hart (Janice Rule), the pregnant wife of the man who owns the building they live in. She is an artist who paints murals in various places including the pool at the apartment complex. She almost never speaks, but is obviously aware that her husband is a drunken philanderer. There's another climactic scene that splits the film and rearranges the three into a unit that seems to complete these three fragmented personalities. Altman said this film came to him in a dream and it certainly feels like a dream. It has an internal logic that works on its own , and I personally think it's one of his better films. Duvall and Spacek have never been better.
Pranavist Film-makers seldom go for the character driven movies as there is a high possibility of getting rejected by the audiences. Apparently Altman's risky attempt has been acclaimed because of the emotional spectrum being projected throughout this movie. If you are looking for an intellectual content in this movie, you will be disappointed. I presume that the director may be following a postmodern approach in order to prevent us from logical thinking. Like an anomaly this movie has a linear screenplay. So that the viewers would not be spending much time, thinking of it's chronological order. So basically the director's intention is to hypnotize the viewers with a relaxed mood and that's what makes it special from the other character driven movies.It's an irrefutable fact that Robert Altman was inspired by the movie Persona (Ingmar Bergman) to make this movie. Also the movies like Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive belong to the same category. Three of them acted really well, out of which Sissy Spacek's performance is outstanding. And the cinematography is mediocre with the normal camera movements. Three of them have very different personae. Pinky was a timid and immature girl. Her personality was rather submissive. She finds it awkward to interact with her colleagues. Eventually Millie was instructed to take care of Pinky. And they become roommates. Pinky thinks Millie is perfect and gradually she observes Millie. Pinky even tries to read Millie's diary secretly. Along with their friendship they trade their personae gradually. Millie introduces owners of her apartment, Willie and Edgar. Their personality was mutually exclusive. Edgar was a complete extrovert but Willie was always silent. She never talks to someone. The rest of the events seems like a dream sequence and it's difficult to find an explanation for it.We can find that the three women Millie, Pinky and Willie shared something common.1) Three of them were betrayed by Edgar; Edgar was the husband of Willie and boyfriend of both Millie and Pinky.2) They were metaphorically represented as daemons in Willie's pictures near the swimming pool in their apartment.3) Although they were the slaves of Edgar, they betrayed in a triangular way as well; Willie --> Millie (bar); Millie --> Pinky (apartment); Pinky --> Willie (Willie's home)Eventually we can find that their minds complete each other according to the Freudian concept of psychoanalysis(Id, Ego and Super-ego). There is no intellectual conclusion in the world of emotions. It is meant to experience the emotional spectra produced by the director. It makes different impacts on each viewers and that cannot be expressed but only felt. Certainly I'm looking forward to watch the other movies of this genius.
gavin6942 Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) is an awkward adolescent who starts work at a spa in the California desert. She becomes overly attached to fellow spa attendant, Millie (Shelley Duvall), when she becomes Millie's room-mate.Roger Ebert named this the best film of 1977, but despite the praise, for twenty-seven years, the film was unavailable on home video. Thank you, Criterion, for finding these lost gems and giving them the proper treatment they deserve! What we actually have are two women, both named Mildred (though neither goes by it). Yes, there is a third, but the relationship between Pinky and Millie is the core here. And it is odd. Not only are these two actresses very unconventional in appearance, but they are just so strange. While Robert Altman deserves a great deal of credit, the real stars of this production are Spacek and Duvall, who transformed this from a script into a film.
