Joy Mangano

So last night I watched "Joy" as it was Cheap Tickets Tuesday. (CTT, my own acronyms)

As much as I like Jennifer Lawrence, I do not think that Golden Globe for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy should go to her for her role in "Joy".   First and foremost, "Joy" is not Musical nor Comedy. There is nothing musical nor amusing about that movie nor how it was made. None. Unless the Americans find that the Struggles of a single mom with a divorced hubby living in the basement of her apartment, who also has a dysfunctional family, a restless father, an emotionally absent and self-absorbed mother, an aged but inspiring Granny, an ever-so-jealous half-sister, plus money woes- you know, if the Americans find this kind of life comic then I have nothing to say. 

No lah. I don't mean it. Of course I do get the pun that the only thing left to do with a life like that is to laugh.  

Secondly, Jennifer had only brought out like......... 15% of Joy's character?   15% is very lousy acting for firstly, a good actress like her, secondly an amazing real life character like Joy Mangano. Oh come on, this is a real life rags-to-riches during the best of prime neoliberalism period ley! How come so mild one? These freaking idiots. How many real life female business moguls are there! Such a real person and they developed her on-screen character so lousily!   Even Julia Roberts brought Erin Brockovich out better and Sandra Bullocks brought Leigh Anne Tuohy out better. Jennifer, are you okay or not?  Seriously, I feel that they didn't do Joy Mangano justice. Even with that Golden Globe and all the funfare afterwards, I still feel that they should have dwelt deeper into the character. Even that movie (Flash of Genius) was way much better in bringing out the agony, trials and tribulations of the inventor's (Kearns) battles with Ford Motor Company who stole his patented technology of the intermittent windshield wiper. After a long, legal battle spanning over a decade, Kearns won the case but he had lost his marriage and relationships with his children. You know, there's so much room to exploit on biographical films, so I guess my expectations are higher. 

Nevertheless, Joy is still watchable although I feel that the days of Patenting are numbered. Many inventions are made free to consumers. If you don't make it free to consumers, the free market will still copy it. One way or another, someone else tweak your ideas or your inventions and claim their own, nobody wins except lawyers. Serve the people and you will be on the right track. Well, that's my 1.4 cents' worth. (USD 2 cents = SGD 1.4 cents)