....hmmm, I didn't see Muriel as a selfish person, Ruby...I think that she loved her mum but her whole life of feeling a 'success' was to find someone to love her../to marry her and that's what her mum had and yet, she was a terribly unhappy person...I think that Muriel avoided facing that because if she did, it would shatter her dreams and leave her with nothing../just leave her feeling hopeless...to face that marriage to someone../the wrong person could be something that could destroy a person as in her mother's situation with her dad...and I think that she loved her siblings as well but all of their worlds with their dad were not that were love was ever shown../ever demonstrated...there was no affection in the family because the father only ever measured 'success' or 'failure'....and obviously, he was the one thing that was bringing that 'failure' because he didn't make his children feel loved/believed in etc...
..I enjoyed this movie much more this time just because I have known people like Muriel...people who have no belief in themselves.../no self confidence..and who see that being achieved in something it won't ever be unless they realise their own beauty, just as they are..(quoting a line from Bridget Jones...)...it's quite a dark movie with her mum's depression and eventual taking of her life and Rhonda's cancer but that only goes to make those feel good moments more emotional and lovely...Muriel and Rhonda singing Dancing Queen.....putting the 'mean girls' in their place and the ending when they finally escaped Porpoise Spit with Muriel finally finding her confidence and self-belief, without the reliance of anyone else...great Abba soundtrack, great characters and all perfectly balanced to make a pretty great movie..so I would say a lovely 8/10...
..thank you Jamie and Mokka for the choice....
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Muriel lacked consideration for her parents by stealing their money, putting her own needs first, this makes her selfish. She also put her own needs first regarding Rhonda by deciding to get married to the South African, again putting her own needs first, with no consideration for how Rhonda was going to survive on her own. She thought happiness lay within the fact of getting married, yet her own mother was married and a complete doormat, totally unappreciated and her dad was an arsehole, and yet she didn't see this, the fact that her own mum and dad were unhappy. As i said this is a movie about self acceptance and i love this movie, it just seemed to jump out at me this time that she comes across as selfish. She realises true happiness doesn't involve a man and a wedding dress, but with her true friend Rhonda. The movie resonated with me on so many levels. The selfishness, the running away from problems, thinking that somethings going to be better when it actually isn't, trying to be someone you aren't, it's all part of life which is why i love this movie so.
...putting the 'mean girls' in their place and the ending when they finally escaped Porpoise Spit with Muriel finally finding her confidence and self-belief, without the reliance of anyone else...great Abba soundtrack, great characters and all perfectly balanced to make a pretty great movie..so I would say a lovely 8/10...
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