I watched John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and I'm sitting there thinking about it. The world of intrafamily relations is diverse, many factors affect the relationship between spouses, their relatives, their relations with children, under the influence of these relations, perhaps the people themselves change, and
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I watched John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and I'm sitting there thinking about it. The world of intrafamily relations is diverse, many factors affect the relationship between spouses, their relatives, their relations with children, under the influence of these relations, perhaps the people themselves change, and the degree of change often depends on their mental state and state of mind. Here lives Mabel (Gina Rowlands) with her husband Nick (Peter Falk). It seems that she should be happy – she has a caring husband, attracting to the business of entertainment his wife and his colleagues, three beautiful children, whom she loves and who love her. But the husband, as they say, does not see that Mabel needs not the attitude that he demonstrates. He, of course, cannot help noticing that her head is not all right, this is noticed by others, in the end she is sent to a psychiatric hospital, from where she returns in six months in the same state and only the slap of her husband brings her to her senses (for how long?), but is this the method that should be used and which the husband has used rather unsuccessfully before? The question, as you can see, is rhetorical. To tell the truth, not only the main character is not in himself there, the other characters of the film also sometimes demonstrate very inadequate behavior, including the husband himself. And the fact that a rather despotic person is hiding behind a kind of caring attitude, it becomes clear quite quickly. Maybe Nick brought Mabel to this state, maybe it was under his influence that she became this way? After watching the movie in 2.5 hours, we are left in the dark.
The film, in general, is not bad, although at times some episodes seem excessively long, but it is the handwriting of Cassavetes, his style. The actors are wonderful – that Gina Rowlands, that Peter Falk, it is interesting that in the role of parents Mabel Cassavetes shot the real parents of Gina Rowlands.
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