Happiness 4K 1998

Drama with elements of humor on the edge. The cast is great!

Director Todd Solondz showed us how hardworking and decent Americans live, or rather what they live. The heroes are in search of love and harmony, but at the same time each is shown 'with his skeleton in the closet'. Hidden desires and urges are hidden from society, but you can't hide from them yourself. All kinds of taboos are hacked and so thoroughly exposed to the audience that probably that's why the movie seems hysterically funny in some places and sometimes tragic. I think the moral of this fable is this: this is our 'Sosieti'.

Classic intertwining of plot lines, the heroes of which, of course, have to do with each other. By and large, the center of events is an ordinary family - three sisters and their father and mother, well and adjoining husbands, children, lovers, neighbors, etc. Remind you of one of Chekhov's plays? Don't be surprised if you find similarities.

In fact, it is an American three sisters, so all the daughters live separate independent lives, meeting from time to time trying to help each other organize their lives. The sisters, however, are very different. The youngest is in search of herself and world peace, the middle one is a successful glamorous writer who has achieved a lot, and the eldest is just a nice housewife and mother of two children. Are they happy?

All this looks rather trivial, thought Solondz and decided that if you add a psychiatrist husband with mildly frightening tendencies, a lonely quiet neighbor loser and the same neighbor next door to the neighbor, as well as a Russian cab driver immigrant with a clearly criminal past and to make a showdown between old men mom and dad, and even look at the childish view of growing up Timmy on many adult things, the film will turn out just awesome. And the movie does work.

In fact, the movie is so good that it can be vested 10/10 and 5***** from top to bottom. (by the way the movie won 9 out of 12 nominations at all kinds of festivals among them Golden Globes, Cannes, Toronto, Stockholm).

But before recommending this picture for viewing, it should be reminded that this is a movie for amateurs. Those who especially appreciate the abolition of all prohibitions and looks at life with a fair share of arbitrary humor this picture just have to love.