The Descendants 2011
"Ah," I thought, "it is going to be another one of those George Clooney movies where he goes on exhibiting his flashy smile breaking young girls' heart and laughing all the way to the bank!" Luckily, I was wrong. It was not too bad, actually.
The starting line caught my attention. Something to the effect of people go under the impression that everyone in Hawaii is happy living in paradise but people there too have fatal cancers, have heartaches.....
It is an emotionally charged movie of the story of Matt King, a successful real estate attorney who has an adrenaline junkie brain dead wife in hospital after a water sport accident. He soon discovers that she had been cheating on him. Then there are his two daughters who are giving him hell - a pre-teen who is having problems with friends in school and is using 4-lettered word like punctuation marks and a wild young adult in university. To top it up, there is a question of his ancestral land (in Hawaii) of which he is the trustee and shares with his cousins, which the rest of the clan wants to dispose off. The massive piece of land was owned by his great ancestor, an ancient queen who married a white man and the land had stayed in the family since. The family still practises traditional Hawaiian rituals like leaving shoes outside the home, cremation and strong familial bonds. Because of their wealth, they went to private schools and could not speak the local lingo.
This weary King has to deal with the ambivalence of an infidel wife who is in her last few days of her life, the question of turning off her life support, informing the relatives and the same time hunting down the wife's fling, a real estate agent.
Along the way is Matt's daughter, Alex's boyfriend who appeared apparently retarded but has his own sad tale to tell about his lonely receptionist mother and his dead drunk father.
Matt is confused on how to steer his daughters back to correct path but realises that the turn of events surrounding his life actually makes them closer to each other as they unplug the ventilator off their mother. Everything is forgiven as they bade farewell. As for the ancestral land, much to disappointment of the cousins, Matt decides to defer the selling until a time in the future as he believed that they actually do not own anything, the land was entrusted upon them. He felt guilty on making a fast buck on the ancestral land.
A good watch with picturesque scenery of the Hawaiian coastline and landscape- see a down to earth mature furrowed and wrinkled George Clooney doing a good job! Many awards were awarded for this film and cast....
Memorable quote....
"Ah," I thought, "it is going to be another one of those George Clooney movies where he goes on exhibiting his flashy smile breaking young girls' heart and laughing all the way to the bank!" Luckily, I was wrong. It was not too bad, actually.
The starting line caught my attention. Something to the effect of people go under the impression that everyone in Hawaii is happy living in paradise but people there too have fatal cancers, have heartaches.....
It is an emotionally charged movie of the story of Matt King, a successful real estate attorney who has an adrenaline junkie brain dead wife in hospital after a water sport accident. He soon discovers that she had been cheating on him. Then there are his two daughters who are giving him hell - a pre-teen who is having problems with friends in school and is using 4-lettered word like punctuation marks and a wild young adult in university. To top it up, there is a question of his ancestral land (in Hawaii) of which he is the trustee and shares with his cousins, which the rest of the clan wants to dispose off. The massive piece of land was owned by his great ancestor, an ancient queen who married a white man and the land had stayed in the family since. The family still practises traditional Hawaiian rituals like leaving shoes outside the home, cremation and strong familial bonds. Because of their wealth, they went to private schools and could not speak the local lingo.This weary King has to deal with the ambivalence of an infidel wife who is in her last few days of her life, the question of turning off her life support, informing the relatives and the same time hunting down the wife's fling, a real estate agent.
Along the way is Matt's daughter, Alex's boyfriend who appeared apparently retarded but has his own sad tale to tell about his lonely receptionist mother and his dead drunk father.
Matt is confused on how to steer his daughters back to correct path but realises that the turn of events surrounding his life actually makes them closer to each other as they unplug the ventilator off their mother. Everything is forgiven as they bade farewell. As for the ancestral land, much to disappointment of the cousins, Matt decides to defer the selling until a time in the future as he believed that they actually do not own anything, the land was entrusted upon them. He felt guilty on making a fast buck on the ancestral land.
A good watch with picturesque scenery of the Hawaiian coastline and landscape- see a down to earth mature furrowed and wrinkled George Clooney doing a good job! Many awards were awarded for this film and cast....
Memorable quote....
I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father - you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing.
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